The ladies listen as Verda Davenport (Lady in Brown) shares her story in Actors Theatre of Little Rock’s rendition of Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow ...
One of the most magical aspects of theater is how it uses artifice to show its audience reality. Wigs, costumes, fictional stories and characters all somehow coalesce to make something real from the ...
Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, collectively called a 'choreopoem.' Shange's poetry expresses the many struggles and obstacles that African-American women face throughout ...