Shange Ntozake - For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow Is Enuf - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: This revolutionary award - winning play by a lauded playwright and poet is a fearless portrayal of the experiences of women of color';extraordinary and wonderfulthat anyone can relate to (The New York Times) and continues to move and resonate with readers today more than ever. From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway the Obie Award - winning 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 Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing. every feeling and experience a woman has ever had " 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.
Title: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow Is Enuf
Author(s): Shange Ntozake
Publisher: Scribner
Barcode: 9781451624205
Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/30/2010