“For Colored Girls” The Play
Who have considered suicide / When the rainbow is enuf

Event

FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF

By Ntozake Shange

Directed By Voress Franklin

February 2 – 25, 2024

*At the Guild Theater in Oak Park, In partnership with St. HOPE for Black History Month.

 

A groundbreaking work in modern American theater, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF is a choreopoem following seven women through a world of racism, oppression, and sexism. Filled with passion, humor, and raw honesty, they tell their stories and those of other women they know through a fusion of poetry, music, and dance. FOR COLORED GIRLS premiered at the Booth Theatre in 1976, becoming the second play by a Black woman to reach Broadway, preceded by Lorraine Hansberry’s A RAISIN IN THE SUN.

 

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