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for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is a 1976 work by Ntozake Shange. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form which Shange coined the word choreopoem to describe.
What are the roles of each color in for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf?
From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, 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 for nearly fifty years.
About for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf on Broadway. One hour and 35 minutes with no intermission. Recommended for ages 13 and up. Children under the age of 4...
Poet-playwright-dancer Shange—who originated the role of Lady in Orange, one of the show’s seven color-coded characters—died in 2018, but this rousing revival testifies to the magnitude...
In other words, the choreopoem is intended “for colored girls who have considered suicide,” and it also hints at the emotional and spiritual health that are achieved “when [one recognizes that] the rainbow is enuf.”
Ntozake Shange ’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” defied Broadway conventions when it opened at the Booth Theater on Sept. 15, 1976.
