T.C.’s Production of “For Colored Girls..” By Ntozake Shange

This group is for actresses, stage hands, make up artist and etc. who would like to produce their own version of Ntozake Shange’s play For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf:A choreopoem

For Colored Girls is a series of twenty poems, referred collectively as a “choreopoem”, performed through a cast of nameless women, each known only by a color: “Lady in Yellow”, “Lady in Purple”, etc.. The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion. The performances of the nine actresses are focused on their specific stories; i.e., Lady in Red’s visceral account of a woman who chooses to abort her baby; Lady in Brown horrifying tale of domestic abuse. Lady in Green embodies youthful determination as she runs away from home to live with Haitian liberator Toussaint L’Ouverture. Although the play expresses a certain dissatisfaction with the roles men have played in its characters’ lives, it transcends bashing. The end of the play brings together all of the women for “a laying on of hands,” where Shange evokes the power of womanhood as the Lady in Brown begins the mantra “I found God in myself/ and I loved her/ I loved her fiercely.”

Learn more and join this group at http://www.meetup.com/For-Colored-Girls-By-Ntozake-Shange/.