For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf is a theatrical celebration, in verse and prose, of being female and black. It incorporates the triumphs, joys, griefs and losses of black women in America.
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award–winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem has excited, inspired and transformed audiences all over the country.
Passionate and fearless, author Ntozake Shange's words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf will be read and performed for generations to come.
This is a groundbreaking, dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
"Extraordinary and wonderful . . . Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message." -The New York Times
"If there are shoulders modern African-American women's literature stands upon they belong to Ntozake Shange, who revolutionized theater and literature with her iconic work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf in the 1970s. Any of us writing today are inheritors of her genius." —Sapphire, author of Push
Located in Hunt Valley, Maryland and part of Baltimore County, Greetings & Readings of Hunt Valley is the premier independent gift store in Maryland. Fiction, fashion and fun.
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award–winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem has excited, inspired and transformed audiences all over the country.Passionate and fearless, author Ntozake Shange's words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf will be read and performed for generations to come.
This is a groundbreaking, dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
"Extraordinary and wonderful . . . Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message." -The New York Times
"If there are shoulders modern African-American women's literature stands upon they belong to Ntozake Shange, who revolutionized theater and literature with her iconic work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf in the 1970s. Any of us writing today are inheritors of her genius." —Sapphire, author of Push
Located in Hunt Valley, Maryland and part of Baltimore County, Greetings & Readings of Hunt Valley is the premier independent gift store in Maryland. Fiction, fashion and fun.
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