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

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

by Ntozake Shange

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth... (read more)

Top tags: poetry,  drama,  play,  literature,  african-american (all tags)

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Liked It

Shara A
  • Rated 5 stars

“I would highly recommend this book for every older teen and young adult female of color. It helped me express feelings I had yet to understand. It is beautiful, powerful, moving and real.”

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Didn’t Like It

Dave N
  • Rated 1 stars

“tho shange says that the work should not be reviewed as a play, but as a poem, it's still a bad poem. i think that the sexist society of inner city black communities in the late 60's can be expressed more artistically by having real characters, and a script instead of a jumble of average (at-best) monologues that don't collaborate to make a solid story at all.”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.395605 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 5 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • DeBerryandGrant

    deberryandgrant said:

    “There's a new Broadway Production of this show, staring India.arie on the way!! CHECK OUT OUR BLOG TO READ THE OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE!!
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    posted Wednesday, June 25 2008
  • MardresReader

    mardresreader said:

    “I've had the pleasure of performing as the Lady in Purple in this melodic and lyrical play. It sends a powerful message on love, heartbreak, abuse and survival that all women of color experience. Our cast cried, laughed, smiled and frowned during the production. What is truly amazing is that all were seasoned women and the response we received from men and women audiences were such a blessing. I love my director to this day for including me in such a remarkable production.”

    posted Monday, October 29 2007
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