For Colored Girls

From the venue:

Ty & Co. Theatre Presents:

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

Director: Tylina Swinger

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is Ntozake Shange’s first work and most acclaimed theater piece. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form Shange coined as the choreopoem.

A black woman explores seven facets of herself and emerges a stronger person in Ntzoke Shange’s “choreo-poem.”

for colored girls... tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society.