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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Fri January 10 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
This groundbreaking “choreopoem” is a spellbinding collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives about and performed by seven black women.
Sayeeda Carter directs the cast of Kaden Grouby, Evangeline Gumbs, Laurelle “LD” Holley, Azadi Knight, Chevon Miles, Keturah Nurse, and Shanell Petersen
Ntozake Shange was an American playwright and poet. As a Black feminist, she addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work. She is best known for her Obie Award–winning play, “for colored girls…” This choreopoem premiered in 1976 in Berkeley, California, and was Ntozake’s first and most widely produced work.
The poem follows seven nameless women 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.
for colored girls… became a revolution for actresses of color and made its way from a tiny theater in Berkeley to New York City where it became the second play by a black woman to reach Broadway. The 20 poems that make up the piece are complex, rhythmic, delicate, rough, violent, and fragile. The physicality and rhythm are just as vital to understanding what the women are going through as the words they speak.
Caribbean Community Theatre continues its 40th season with “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow was enuf” – a choreopoem written by Ntozake Shange.
General admission tickets may be purchased in advance online at Eventbrite.
For reservations, more information, directions to CCT, or for handicap assistance, email: eileencct@gmail.com. Tickets are $20 for adults; $18 for seniors (age 65+), $15 for college students and CCT members; and $10 for students under age 18 and may be purchased (for cash only) at the CCT box office prior to each show, which opens 45 minutes before curtain.
This play contains sensitive content, including racial slurs and homophobic language, which may be disturbing and triggering for some audience members. Viewer discretion is advised.
This production is NOT recommended for children under age 16.
CCT productions are jointly supported by a grant from the Virgin Islands Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. This show is also co-sponsored by Susan & Crystal Atkins-Weathers, Christiansted Apothecary Hall, Marshall + Sterling / Baker Magras, Smiles St. Croix Dental Studio, Team Consultants, Armrey Industries, Crucian Gold, and Caledonia Communication Corporation/WSTX 970 AM.
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