description: From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater &amp; on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired &amp; transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate &amp; fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color &amp; female in the 20th century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling &amp; experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read &amp; performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vividly powerful language 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
titlecomplete: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
genres: Fiction, Plays, African American, Theatre, Classics, Race, Drama, Womens, Feminism, Poetry
ratings_count: 33808
publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd