For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf is Ntozake Shange's first work and most well known theater piece. It premiered in 1976. It is made up of a series of poetic monologues with dance movements and music. This is known as choreopoem.Carr, Jane (October 28, 2018), "What 'For Colored Girls' meant to us", CNN. for colored girls... tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society. Each woman is nameless, identified by only a color (e.g. lady in blue). 

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