Years later, while working on From Okra to Greens at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, I met Ntozake. I still can recite the piece 30 years later. “You should do a monologue from this,” he said as he handed over the script with its bright cover and warm brown face. At the age of 15, my high school drama teacher handed me a paperback book: it was For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.
My journey with Ntozake Shange’s words started long ago. The Drama Guy’s top 10 fall (POC) theatre picksĪfrican-American Shakespeare Company Presents ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf’īay Area fall theater shatters taboos, knocks pedestals over Strength and magic the focus of African-American Shakes’ production of ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf’ Interview with Natasha LaGrone and Jan Hunter. Ntozake Shange Brightens Colorful American SoulsĬlassic stage-poem ‘for colored girls …’ comes home to SF Bay Area
To view and download high resolution press photos, please visit the Press & Photo Gallery page.Īfrican-American Shakes’ ‘for colored girls’ offers a rainbow of pain, hopeĪ Sparkling Diffraction of Stories and Spiritįor colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enufįOR COLORED GIRLS Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, by Ntozake Shange, directed by Elizabeth Carter Harrell Wines will be providing a complimentary wine tasting