num_pages: 80
description: In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival Ntozake Shanges classic award-winning play centering the wide-ranging experiences of Black women now with introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown.From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022 the Obie Awardwinning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited inspired and transformed audiences all over the country for nearly fifty years. Passionate and fearless Shanges words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for encompassingevery 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. Now with new introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown and one poem not included in the original here is the complete text of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
language: English
title: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
publisher: Scribner