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

play written by Ntozake Shange

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.[1] for colored girls... tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society.[2]

References change

  1. Carr, Jane (October 28, 2018), "What 'For Colored Girls' meant to us", CNN.
  2. Hammad, Lamia Khalil (2011). "Black Feminist Discourse of Power in for colored girls who have considered suicide" (PDF). Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. Yarmouk University. Retrieved 3 May 2014.