For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf Show Poster

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf Cast & Creative

Ntozake Shange's groundbreaking work returns to the Public Theater for the first time since 1976.

This show is closed.

Performances ended on Dec. 15, 2019.

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About For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

Filled with passion, humor, and raw honesty, legendary playwright/poet Ntozake Shange’s form-changing choreopoem tells the stories of seven women of color using poetry, song, and movement. With unflinching honesty and emotion, each woman voices her survival story of having to exist in a world shaped by sexism and racism. Obie Award winner Leah C. Gardiner directs this seminal work that speaks to our world today about women’s struggles, strength, desires, resilience, and the sanctified magic of love and possibility.

Cast

Sasha Allen
Lady in Blue
Celia Chevalier
Lady in Brown
Danaya Esperanza
Lady in Orange
Jayme Lawson
Lady in Red
Adrienne C. Moore
Lady in Yellow
Lady in Purple

Creative

Written by
Ntozake Shange
Director
Leah C. Gardiner
Choreographer
Camille A. Brown
Set Designer
Myung Hee Cho
Costume Designer
Toni-Leslie James
Lighting Designer
Jiyoun Chang
Sound Designer
Megumi Katayama
Original Compositions
Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby
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