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

[roseillith]

FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF (1982) dir. OZ SCOTT

#f #for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf #oz scott #ntozake shange

[straightplayshowdown]

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: The show examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship.

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: The play follows seven nameless woman through a world of racism, oppression, and sexism. These women of color are named after the colors of the rainbow: Lady in Red, Lady in Blue, Lady in Purple, Lady in Yellow, Lady in Brown, Lady in Green, and Lady in Orange. They tell their stories and the stories of other women they know through poetry, music, and dance. It is a piece that flows effortlessly from one story into the next, never really taking a moment to breathe. The women often help each other tell their stories by acting as a chorus or stepping into the shoes of another character.

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?:

the only play ive read that really made me feel anything tbh. the tension all throughout it. the ending!!! the confusion and the sudden realisation.... the reality & illusion thing. Aughhhh

It's like eavesdropping on a couple fighting at a restaurant, but you're in their living room and they also invited over people they met for the first time that night 

watching this feels like you've been invited to a dinner party and the couple hosting start bickering and you're feeling kind of awkward and then they start going straight for each other's metaphorical throats and acting like it's a game. every time you try to speak up or say "oh wow it's late we should be going" they make another excuse or they turn it on you. such chaos, such fun

it's straight people in a very toxic relationship who has out their drama in front of everyone and also it was written by a gay man and it is very funny

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

A groundbreaking play/choreopoem about the lives of black women

#who's afraid of virginia woolf #for colored girls who have considered suicide #when the rainbow is enuf #for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf #round 3 #polls #the straight play showdown

[vivaciousoceans]

i sat up one nite walkin a boardin house  screamin/ cryin/ the ghost of another woman who waz missin what i waz missin i wanted to jump up outta my bones  & be done wit myself  leave me alone  & go on in the wind  it waz too much  i fell into a numbness  til the only tree i cd see  took me up in her branches  held me in the breeze  made me dawn dew  that chill at daybreak  the sun wrapped me up swingin rose light everywhere  the sky laid over me like a million men  i waz cold/ i waz burnin up/ a child  & endlessly weavin garments for the moon wit my tears  i found god in myself & i loved her/ i loved her fiercely

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

#ntozake shange #for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf #poetry #choreopoetry #black poetry #black poets

[hotwheelsandhighheels]

Picked this up today!

Studying Ms. Shange’s work as she is the pioneer of the choreopoem

I’ve been reading an anthology of her work and my favorite pieces seem to be from Nappy Edges, a Daughter’s Geography, & For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf

I’ve also been watching interviews of Ms. Shange and how she describes the joy of movement and music and creation — I love joy. I want to live and love right here forever

#ff00a3 #poetry #ntozake shange #for colored girls #nappy edges #a daughter’s geography #for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf #choreopoetry

[honeysucklepink]

Show number three with @slayediest

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

[robynsassenmyview]

I am woman, hear me roar

"I am woman, hear me roar", a review of Ntozake Shange's 'for colored girls who have considered suicide//when the rainbow is enuf' at the Joburg Theatre until 3 March 2024.

DANCING on beer cans and shingles, Siobhan King and Refilwe Modiselle (in the background) in a scene from for colored girls who have considered suicide//when the rainbow is enuf, directed by James Ngcobo. Photograph courtesy Joburg Theatre. WHEN YOU ARE able to be present in a huge concrete interior in which one woman and her voice can with clear authority, take control of the whole space, with…

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#Akhona Bozo #American #Andrea Rolfes #Boitumelo Lesejane #Braamfontein #chapter 2 section 9 #Danica Jones #Enos Ramoroko #for colored girls who have considered suicide//when the rainbow is enuf #Harlem #James Ngcobo #Joburg Theatre #Kyla Swart #Lulu Mlangeni #Mandla Mkaba #Miza Ngaye #Mona Monyane #Mpho Kodisang #Nelson Mandela Theatre #Nthabiseng Nkadimeng #Ntokaze Shange #Refilwe Modiselle #Sibikwa #Siobhan King #Siphesihle Ndaba #swankie mafoko #The Head and the Load #Thuto Gaasenwe #Tyler Perry #Willam Kentridge

[feral-ballad]

Ntozake Shange, from For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

[Text ID: “i found god in myself / & i loved her/ i loved her fiercely”]

#ntozake shange #writings #literature #choreopoem #excerpts #fragments #selections #words #quotes #typography

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Martha Swope ~ Actresses (Front L-R) Laurie Carlos, Paula Moss, Aku Kadogo, Trazana Beverly; (Top L-R) Rise Collins, Janet League, Seret Scott in scene from the play 'For Colored Girls...' by Ntozake Shange (1976) | src NYPL

The cast of the Broadway show 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf' by Ntozake Shange, in the Meatpacking District of New York City, 1977 (Photo by Jill Freedman) | src getty images

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#Ntozake Shange #Paulette Williams #Martha Swope #women artists #group portrait #Choreopoem #For Colored Girls #1970s #theater play #Paula Moss #black womanhood #being a black woman #womanhood #Jill Freedman #cast #Broadway play

[ablackwomansurvivingrape]

"latent rapists" – Ladies in Red, Blue, Purple

Rapist doesn’t have to be a stranger to be legitimate.

Someone you never saw, but if you’ve been public with him, dance one dance, kissed him goodbye lightly, with a closed mouth,

Pressing charges would be as hard as trying to keep your legs closed from 5 fools trying to run a train on you

these men are friends of ours,who smile nice,stay employed and take us out to dinner, lock the door behind you, & we are left wit the scares

being betrayed by men who know us & expect like the stranger we always thought waz comin that we will submit

we must have known women relinquish all personal rights in the presence of a man who apparently could be considered a rapist especially if he has been considered a friend & is no less worthy of being beat within an inch of his life being publicly ridiculed havin two fists shoved up his ass than the stranger we always thought it would be who never showed up

cuz it turns out the nature of rape has changed we can now meet them in circles we frequent for companionship we see them at the coffeehouse wit someone else we know we could even have em over for dinner & get raped in our own houses by invitation a friend

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Ntozake Shange

#latent rapists #poetry #black poetry #for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf #Ntozake Shange #rape #reporting rape #acquaintance rape #black rape victims

[roseillith]

FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF (1982) dir. OZ SCOTT

#f #for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf #oz scott

[straightplayshowdown]

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: The play follows seven nameless woman through a world of racism, oppression, and sexism. These women of color are named after the colors of the rainbow: Lady in Red, Lady in Blue, Lady in Purple, Lady in Yellow, Lady in Brown, Lady in Green, and Lady in Orange. They tell their stories and the stories of other women they know through poetry, music, and dance. It is a piece that flows effortlessly from one story into the next, never really taking a moment to breathe. The women often help each other tell their stories by acting as a chorus or stepping into the shoes of another character.

Gruesome Playground Injuries: It’s not your typical love story: Doug and Kayleen meet at the nurse’s office in their elementary school; she’s got a painful stomach ache, and he’s all banged up from a running dive off the roof of the school. Over the next thirty years, these scar-crossed lovers meet again and again, brought together by injury, heartbreak, and their own self-destructive tendencies. 

Propaganda under the cut!

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

A groundbreaking play/choreopoem about the lives of black women

Gruesome Playground Injuries:

two people but they end up only meeting/talking when they're injured and it's very dramatic and cool and they both need so much therapy and also allows for fun stage makeup 

#polls #round 1 #for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf #for colored girls who have considered suicide #when the rainbow is enuf #gruesome playground injuries #the straight play showdown

[fluoresensitive]

"i cdnt stand bein sorry & colored at the same time/ it's so redundant in the modern world."

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, Ntozake Shange

#🦢 #nonblack ppl don't touch #ntozake shange #for colored girls #lit #(WAILS)

[hotwheelsandhighheels]

I'm been tracking my productivity in my Slingshot organizer. I got a HOT PINK cover and I love it!

Been trying to log in at least some writing/revising/recording time when I'm actively working on my manuscript and adding to it in some way

Also trying to log in time studying poetry. I started my winter break studying forms and Langston Hughes. Sidetracked into some Bad Bunny for a minute. Kid's dope, what can I say...

Right now I am on my 2nd read through of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

I read it through out loud first and now I'm going through line by line and annotating, paying special attention to the visual cues in each line

I have found that I am drawn to Ms. Shange's pacing and how she navigates that with or without the use of slashes, line breaks, or capitalization (at first glance, you wonder why she chose to use a certain technique here and not there to arrive at the same effect. on second glance, there is a genius to her consistency).

Then I'll be off to find footage of different performances of this choreopoem so I can pay special attention to the blockage, the use of music and dance, as well as delivery of lines. & I'll be annotating along the way lol it'll be fun

Other things I've tracked: my period (yay no more creepy period apps) & my sobriety (no alcohol going on 5 days now, ayee. i didn't give up weed tho. i love weed)

#life update #ff00a3 #poetry #poetry notes 📝 #ntozake shange #for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

[garadinervi]

'for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf' by Ntozake Shange, «Playbill», Equinox Theatre, Houston, TX, November 19, 1977 [Marjorie Randal National Women's Conference Collection, Box 1, Folder 11, UH Libraries Exhibits, University of Houston, Houston, TX]

With: Deborah Arceneaux, Laura Booker, Jan Crain, Dannette Johnson, Barbara Marshall, Leslie Mays, and Brenda Sers

Direction: Bruce Bowen

#graphic design #art #theatre #theater #play #brochure #cover #ntozake shange #deborah arceneaux #laura booker #jan crain #dannette johnson #barbara marshall #leslie mays #brenda sers #bruce bowen #playbill #equinox theatre #university of houston libraries #university of houston libraries exhibits #uh libraries exhibits #1970s

[whilereadingandwalking]

For Black Women Writers at Work, Claudia Tate interviewed 14 playwrights, poets, and novelists to get at their sensibilities and their craft, and ask their takes on some of the debates of the day. The artists include Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde, and many more, and the interviews include a lot of fascinating insight into their craft, especially valuable when they were interviewed in the 1970s and too much of their work reduced to solely their own experiences rather than their creativity or process. The iconic tome has been rereleased by Haymarket Books in this new lovely edition.

The one thing I wish this reissue had was an introduction to the issues and debates of the day for the 2023 reader. Over and over again, Tate asked writers about a 'debate.' My understanding is that the Black sexist debate was raised particularly by two works: Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace and for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange. The crux of it was that female writers who raised issues of misogyny, abuse, and sexual assault were accused of dividing the community and undermining the unity of the Black cause. I was able to slowly get that from reading along and then google-searching, but an introduction to it could have been incredibly valuable and taken mere sentences.

It was honestly incredible to get into the heads of these authors and hear from them about their stories and their craft, when they were in the midst of it. Their voices are so distinct and vivid, and it's fantastic to have this archive, to get a chance to see into their heads. It includes many fantastic pieces of writing advice (I particularly loved Toni Morrison's, perhaps because she too feels like her characters and stories just arrive in her head). A great and necessary read for writers and for readers of these incredible authors' works.

#black women writers at work #haymarket books #claudia tate #maya angelou #toni morrison #black literature #black authors #my book reviews

[unlovelyspace]

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

#for colored girls #for colored girls who have considered suicide #ntozake shange #poem #poetry #quote #quotes #words #writing #uploads