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For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf

The Lyric Theatre (520 North La Brea Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036)
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The Lyric Theatre presents Ntozake Shange's Obie-winning play For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. This experimental drama from 1975 is a landmark in African-American and feminist literature. It has been performed both on and off-Broadway as well as being adapted into a book, TV movie and film. The play consists of a series of 20 poems that express the struggles of African-American women. Each of the seven characters wears a color of the rainbow as they recount their experiences with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion, as well as other life experiences. After they each tell their story, all of the women come together and find strength in each other.

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The last date listed for For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf was Sunday March 18, 2012 / 7:00pm (Closing Night).

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The Lyric Theatre
520 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-939-9220
376913

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The acting was uneven, but overall ok. I hadn't seen the play before and I felt that I had a hard time becoming invested in any one character because there were so many characters and the scenes shifted quickly. Two scenes were powerfully done and connected with me, but I wonder if I felt that way because those two scenes were done by the actors with the most skills.
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Job well done, better than the movie. I saw the original version oh so many years ago; this was a great effort by all those involved.
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There was a time when African American men and women were pushed down, held back, repressed, depressed and hoodwinked. There was a time when African Americans were forced to believe “No, you won’t. No, I can’t. There was a time… For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” is an Obie Award-winning play by renowned novelist, poet and playwright Ntozake Shange. It was the inspiration for Tyler Perry’s recent film For Colored Girls. This play weaves lush movement and graceful verse into a truly stirring portrait of seven amazing black women trapped in their sex, color and consciousness. Each woman’s journey is unique yet each seamlessly blends with the stories of the other six women to form one, united voice of pride and power.