For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem (Scribner Classics) - Hardcover

Shange, Ntozake

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1451624204 ISBN 13: 9781451624205

Publisher: Scribner Book Company, 2010

Synopsis

A revolutionary, award-winning play by a lauded playwright and poet about the experiences of women of color.

From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, 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. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.

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Review:

"Overwhelming....It's joyous and alive, affirmative in the face of despair." --"Daily News "(New York)

"Passionate and lyrical...In poetry and prose Shange describes what it means to be a black woman in a world of mean streets, deceitful men, and aching loss." --New York "Newsday"

About the Author:

Ntozake Shange (1948-2018) was a poet, novelist, playwright, and performer. She wrote the Broadway-produced and Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, as well as numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo; Betsey Brown; and Liliane.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1451624204
• ISBN 13: 9781451624205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112