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Ntozake Shange was an African-American dramatist, poet, and feminist who lived from 1948 to 2018. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enough, her 1975 Obie Award-winning choreopoem, is best remembered. Ntozake Shange, a brave and unapologetic performer, has a number of uplifting and empowering statements.
Drawing inspiration from Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, FBB stands on the shoulders of a ground-breaking choreopoem. Through various poems, Shange’s masterpiece eloquently dissects African American women’s lives, trials, and triumphs. The characters explore love, trauma ...
Inspired by Ntozake Shange's ‘*For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf*’, For Black Boys... is located on the threshold of joyful fantasy and brutal reality: a ...
Theatre Review: ‘for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf’ at ArtsCentric; Theatre Review: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ presented by Lumina Studio Theatre at Silver Spring Black Box Theater; Theatre Review: ‘Cindy of Arc’ at The Baltimore Theatre Project
She also appeared in For Colored Girls (2010), Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 theatre piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Her life and career were the subject of the four-part docuseries Janet Jackson.
Featured actresses in six parts of August Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle have been nominated for the award. Featured actress Trazana Beverley in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is the first African American actor to receive the award. See also. Theatre portal
Ntozake Shange's first work and most acclaimed theater piece which captures the brutal, tender, and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, "For Colored Girls..." offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry and is performed by a cast of seven women characters.
