Product Details
Scribner, November 2010
Trade Paperback, 112 pages
ISBN-10: 1439186812
ISBN-13: 9781439186817
Description
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 meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
“Overwhelming....It’s joyous and alive, affirmative in the face of despair.”
-- Daily News (New York)
“Passionate and lyrical...In poetry and prose Shange describes what it means to be a black woman in a world of mean streets, deceitful men, and aching loss.”
-- New York Newsday
ZNet, November 13, 2010
...Sex in the City” or “He’s Just Not That Into You” then Mr. Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 womanist choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” will gravely disappoint ...
Huffington Post, November 11, 2010
...in the City" or "He's Just Not That Into You," then Mr. Perry's adaptation of Ntozake Shange's 1975 womanist choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf" will gravely disappoint you. And if you are also ...
The Root, November 6, 2010
...it haunt someone else first? In this exclusive interview with The Root’s contributing editor Harriette Cole, playwright-poet-novelist Ntozake Shange talks about the strokes that almost took her life, the new novel she wrote with her sister ...
The Root, November 6, 2010
...it haunt someone else first? In this exclusive interview with The Root’s contributing editor Harriette Cole, playwright-poet-novelist Ntozake Shange talks about the strokes that almost took her life, the new novel she wrote with her sister ...
Delco Times, November 5, 2010
...on the Obie Award-winning play, “for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf,” by Ntozake Shange. First performed in 1974, the play — which Shange called a “choreopoem” — was a sensation. Played by ...
Connecticut Post, November 5, 2010
...the Obie Award-winning play, "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf," by Ntozake Shange. The play, first performed in 1974, was a powerful flow of eloquent, full-blooded testifying by solitary black female ...
Ntozake Shange's Books
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The Sweet Breath of LifeWords and images come together in this inspiring collaboration between renowned poet Ntozake Shange and Kamoinge Inc., a group of acclaimed...Read More -
Ellington Was Not a StreetIn a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of...Read More
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is EnufA movie-tie-in edition of Ntozake Shange's 1975 classic to coincide with the release of Tyler Perry's new movie starring Whoppi Goldberg.Read More
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