From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Pappâs Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Awardâwinning 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, Shangeâs words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for âencomÂpassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,â 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.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf - Ntozake Shange
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Pappâs Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Awardâwinning 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, Shangeâs words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for âencomÂpassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,â 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.