for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Summary
Ntozake Shange

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Summary

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf is a choreopoem, a poem (really a series of 20 separate poems) choreographed to music. Although a printed text cannot convey the full impact of a performance of for colored girls..., Shange's stage directions provide a sense of the interrelationships among the performers and of their gestures and dance movements.

The play begins and ends with the lady in brown. The other...

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