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"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."@en
"A "choreo-poem" reflecting the views of a black American woman about the women of her race."
"A "choreo-poem" reflecting the views of a black American woman about the women of her race."@en
"A theatrical celebration, in verse and prose, of being female and Black incorporates the triumphs, joys, griefs, and losses of Black women in America."@en
"Choreopoem performed by seven women exploring the love and sorrows of being black and being a woman. Music, dancing. 7 women."
"Tyler Perry breaks through to a new level of achievement as a writer and director in his remake of For Colored Girls (based on the groundbreaking 1970s play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, by Ntozake Shange). The cast is superb, especially Kimberly Elise and Phylicia Rashad. And the rest of the cast is just as compelling, including a low-key Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, singer Macy Gray, Thandie Newton, Whoopi Goldberg, Kerry Washington, and Anika Noni Rose. For Colored Girls follows each actress/character as she faces prejudice, economic challenges, male abandonment, role upheaval--and all the emotions that go along with them. The original play was performed as poetry, and while the editing of For Colored Girls is a little uneven, Perry lets Shange's poetry truly shine through. Any person of color, any woman, and anyone who cares about them, will be drawn in to the deepest dramas a woman of color can experience--in the '70s or today. Viewers will get goose bumps when Newton's character, Tangie, says, "Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet." And Elise as Crystal is utterly heartbreaking, with a performance reminiscent of her unforgettable turn in Beloved. The soundtrack of For Colored Girls is as unforgettable as the film, with performances by Gray, Sharon Jones, and others, including Estelle, in a showstopping version of "All Day Long (Blue Skies)." The blues may be wrenching--but in For Colored Girls, they make up the poetry of life."@en
"First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world."
"First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world."@en
""Choreopoem performed by seven women exploring the joys and sorrows of being black and being a woman.""

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"For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf"@en
"For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem ; and spell"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow in enuf : a choreopoem"
"For colored girls"@en
"For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf a choreopoem"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf"@en
"For colored girls who have considered suicide - when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem"@en
"For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf"@en
"For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf [sic] : a choreopoem"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf : a choreophoem"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf : A choreopoem"
"for colored girls who have considered suicide"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf a choreopoem ; and spell"@en
"For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf"@en
"For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : poems"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem"@en
"Voor vrouwen die in regenbogen geloven maar ook zelfmoord overwogen : een choreogedicht"
"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide ; When the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf. [Sound recording]"@en
"For colored girls who have considered suicide"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem"@en
"for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf: a choreopoem"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf a choreopoem"@en
"For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf a choreopoem"@en
"For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf a choreopoem"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem"
"For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem"@en
"For colored girls who have considered suicide [u.a.]"

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