In Ntozake Shange's powerful mid-'70s "choreo-poem," a group of African-Americans dramatizes the struggles and journey toward self respect experienced by black women in America.
Yes, but Shange's 90-minute collection of poems performed by seven women, each in a designated color (Shange undoubtedly means the pun) returns the adjective to its high-wattage definition. Director-choreographer Camille A. Brown's production stuns the daylights out of you.
It's taken more than 45 years for Ntozake Shange's theatrical evening of narrative and lyrical poetry, dance, and song to return to Broadway's Booth Theater....and for me finally to understand its cumbersome title. 'for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf ' opens tonight in a glamorous and, in one way, newly inventive production directed and choreographed by Camille A. Brown.
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1976 | Broadway |
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1979 | West End |
London Production West End |
1980 | Regional (US) |
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2000 | Off-Broadway |
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2019 | Off-Broadway |
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2022 | Broadway |
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