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The Parental Stress Center's Youth Performing Arts Collective Presents
Ntozake Shange's award winning play
For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Directed by J. Deen
November 12, 13 and 14, 2008 - 7:30pm
Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, East Liberty |
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Ntozake Shange's award winning play, "For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf." This work has inspired and transformed it's audiences across the country. Shange's words are passionate and fearless and reveal what is was to be a woman of color in the mid to late twentieth century.
Structurally, 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.
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 About Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange declares herself a poet first and playwright second. She is also a dancer, actor, director, author, lecturer, and black feminist. In 1971, she adopted the name "Ntozake Shange," pronounced En-toe-zok-ee Shan-gay, from Xhosa, a Zulu dialect, which signifies "she who comes into her own things" (Ntozake) and "she who walks like a lion" (Shange). In a 1990 interview with Neal A. Lester, Shange explains, "I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives." Click here for full bio
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For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow is Enuf
Directed by J. Deen
November 12, 13 and 14, 2008 - 7:30pm
At The Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Avenue
East Liberty
Tickets: $6.00
Discounts for Groups of 15 or More
Call 412.361.4800 for more info
Rated PG 15+
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