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But “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf” is a classic for good reason. Coming as it does from that historical cusp between modern and post-modern, Shange’s famous “choreopoem” (a term she coined, which is in wide use today) digs deep into universal and timeless themes of human existence.
Drawing inspiration from Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, FBB stands on the shoulders of a ground-breaking choreopoem. Through various poems, Shange’s masterpiece eloquently dissects African American women’s lives, trials, and triumphs. The characters explore love, trauma ...
Inspired by Ntozake Shange's ‘*For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf*’, For Black Boys... is located on the threshold of joyful fantasy and brutal reality: a ...
Ntozake Shange was an African-American dramatist, poet, and feminist who lived from 1948 to 2018. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enough, her 1975 Obie Award-winning choreopoem, is best remembered. Ntozake Shange, a brave and unapologetic performer, has a number of uplifting and empowering statements.
About For Black Boys... Following performances at New Diorama Theatre and the Royal Court, the groundbreaking drama For Black Boys plays a West End season. Book For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy tickets on London Theatre.
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide is inspired by American playwright Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf and was originally written by Ryan Calais Cameron in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death in 2013.
She also appeared in For Colored Girls (2010), Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 theatre piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Her life and career were the subject of the four-part docuseries Janet Jackson.
