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For Colored Girls is a 2010 American drama film adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1975 original choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.
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.
Nov 5, 2010 · For Colored Girls: Directed by Tyler Perry. With Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Thandiwe Newton. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
Unlike the original play which featured only 7 women known by colors performing the collection of 20 poems, the movie has given each of the 20 characters names. Each of the poems deal with intense issues that particularly impact women in a thought-provoking commentary on what it means to be a female of color in the world. — Anonymous.
In New York, a group of black women, most of whom live in the same Harlem apartment building, faces personal crises, heartbreak and other challenges. Crystal (Kimberly Elise) faces an unhappy ...
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For Colored Girls Filmmaker Tyler Perry adapts this landmark work for the big screen; integrating the vivid language of Ntozake Shange's poems into a contemporary narrative that explores what it means to be a woman of color-any color-in this world.
Sep 16, 2010 · FOR COLORED GIRLS brings to the screen Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning play, a poetic exploration of what is to be of color and a female in this world.
Apr 24, 2022 · What is "for colored girls..." all about? Described as a "choreopoem", the piece is a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music that weaves together several interconnected...
For Colored Girls. 2010 · 2 hr 14 min. R. Drama. Based on the classic stage hit about a collection of women’s life events, some harrowing and some inspiring, that impact with hope and humanity. Subtitles: English.
Nov 5, 2010 · Tyler Perry. Director, Screenplay. About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
