Years ago I heard about this production called "For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf" in an episode of the Cosby Show spin-off 'A Different World'. One of the main characters, Freddy Brooks, had done one of the many poems from the show while auditioning for a dorm ceremony celebration.
I didn't think much of it until I saw the trailer for Tyler Perry's new film "For Colored Girls", his adaptation of the original production [peep the trailer below]. I am very excited about this film (to say the least) which is being shown in theatres this November (pushed up from its original Januaray 2011 debut).
This production is a 1975 play by Ntozake Shange. Initially, the play was staged in California, and has been performed Off-Broadway and on Broadway, adapted as a book, a television movie, and the theatrical movie being produced, written and adapted by Tyler Perry.
For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems performed by a cast of seven women characters that speak to the power of Black women to survive in the face of life challenges and pain. Each poem brings the audience into the life of another Black Woman. The poems all cut across time, place and history. The actors are represented by colors of the rainbow: "Lady in Yellow," "Lady in Purple," etc. The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion, embodied by each woman's story.
Below you will find a video of an off-broadway production of this play. The women in this video are performing a poem entitled "My Love Is Too..."
Enjoy! :)
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