Filled with passion, humor, and raw honesty, legendary playwright/poet Ntozake Shange's form-changing choreopoem tells the stories of seven women of color using poetry, song and movement. With ...
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The ladies listen as Verda Davenport (Lady in Brown) shares her story in Actors Theatre of Little Rock’s rendition of Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow ...
What a rare opportunity to see these two “choreopoems” presented in rotation: Ntozake Shange’s 1974 groundbreaking “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,” which ...
Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, collectively called a 'choreopoem.' Shange's poetry expresses the many struggles and obstacles that African-American women face throughout ...