For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf
by Ntozake Shange

Name: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf
Brand: Ntozake Shange
SKU: 9780684843261
Rating: 4.29 (35352 reviews)

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Highlights

Female

90 mins Present Day Role(s) for Black Actor(s) Bare Stage/Simple Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American

Awards & Recognition

Obie Award Tony Award

Nominee: Seven 2022 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play Winner! 1977 Obie Award for Distinguished Production Nominee: Two 1977 Tony Awards, including Best Play

What readers are saying

Readers find 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf' to be a powerful and relevant work that resonates deeply with themes of race, gender, and personal struggle. Many appreciate the lyrical quality of Shange's writing and the emotional depth it conveys, often expressing a desire to see it performed on stage. The choreopoem's unique structure and poignant messages about the experiences of Black women are frequently highlighted as its strengths.

Emotionally powerful and relevant Lyrical and beautiful writing Strong themes of race and gender Desire to see it performed live Some find it confusing without visuals

Synopsis

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 has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country.

Passionate and fearless, 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.

Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

Press Reviews

"Their voices meld, their bodies tumble and tangle together. And sisterhood becomes a single hydra-headed, multitongued entity, invincible and indivisible. God help the man who dares to cross it."
— The New York Times

"A triumphant event, filled with humor. Pure theatre."
— New York Daily News

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Lady In Blue	—	—	—
Lady In Purple	—	—	—
Lady In Yellow	—	—	—
Lady In Rose	—	—	—
Lady In Green	—	—	—
Lady In Orange	—	—	—
Lady In Red	—	—	—