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Booth Theatre. Genre. Choreopoem. Tragedy [1] [2] [3] [4] 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. [5]
- Lynn F. Miller, Ntozake Shange
- 1975
- Lynn F. Miller, Ntozake Shange
- 1975
- “one thing I don’t need. is any more apologies. i got sorry greetin me at my front door. you can keep yrs. i don’t know what to do wit em. they don’t open doors.
- “without any assistance or guidance from you. i have loved you assiduously for 8 months 2 wks & a day. i have been stood up four times. i've left 7 packages on yr doorstep.
- “my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender” ― Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
- “somebody/ anybody. sing a black girl's song. bring her out. to know herself. to know you. but sing her rhythms. carin/ struggle/ hard times. sing her song of life. she's been dead so long.
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Choreopoem. for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf is a choreopoem, a poem (really a series of 20 separate poems) choreographed to music. The performers dance the poems as well as narrate the lines. These are not poems set to.
Jun 16, 2011 · For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem : Shange, Ntozake : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Shange, Ntozake. Publication date. 1980. Topics. African American women, African American women. Publisher. Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books. Collection.
“They’re outcries filled with a controlled passion against the brutality that blasts the lives of ‘colored girls’—a phrase that in her hands vibrates with social irony and poetic beauty. These poems are political in the deepest sense, but there’s no dogma, no sentimentality, no grinding of false mythic axes.”
views 2,215,248 updated. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf. by Ntozake Shange. THE LITERARY WORK. A choreopoem consisting of monologues joined by dance, poetry, and music set in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century; written 1974-76, first performed in 1974. SYNOPSIS.
Sep 1, 1997 · For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Paperback – September 1, 1997. Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning play encompassing the wide-ranging experiences of Black women, now with introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown.
