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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
Ntozake Shange
4.29 AVERAGE
565 reviews for:
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
Ntozake Shange
4.29 AVERAGE
This was a beautiful collection of poems that incapsulated some of the emotions and tribulations women experience. “The night with Billie…” that story nearly broke me. I need to take a moment to cry. Be prepared to feel these emotions on these pages.
I’d recommend reading this aloud to really feel these stories being told. Shange did a magnificent job with her poetry. I hope this is one day brought back to the stage and that I’m fortunate enough to be able to be in the audience.
I’d recommend reading this aloud to really feel these stories being told. Shange did a magnificent job with her poetry. I hope this is one day brought back to the stage and that I’m fortunate enough to be able to be in the audience.
Reading this as a book is probably not the easiest entry point - will need to find an audiobook recording and/or a performance.
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I enjoyed the read and hope to see this on stage at some point.
"From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world."
"From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world."
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I bought this yesterday on a whim because I wanted to feel something again and I think part of me will always wonder if poetry can do that for me because I rhyme and ramble in my head until it’s just one long endless piece of prose and pro se explanation and making sense of it all. My point being I felt so much and I want to watch this acted out on a stage because even though Ntozake warned me in the introduction about Beau, I didn’t prepare for it. I truly felt like I could understand the complications and complexity in the way the portrayals of female experiences. If you haven’t read it yet, you won’t regret this one.
4/5. Simply because this is a prose I am not used to (poetry).
I felt all the emotion, felt it's understanding of what a woman of color may experience in life and I loved it. It's a quick read so if you're like me and not into the choppiness of poetic expression, give it a try, there's definitely something to take from it.
I felt all the emotion, felt it's understanding of what a woman of color may experience in life and I loved it. It's a quick read so if you're like me and not into the choppiness of poetic expression, give it a try, there's definitely something to take from it.
Best play I've ever read. Yeah, that good.
There are a few versions of this play; I believe that I read the oldest one & the newest one. The only difference is an added section in the 2010 version, and it was pleasant to read, so I guess I'd recommend that one (why not take an extra fifteen pages of this play?). Really though, where to begin with this?
Stunning. An enigma. Poetic, deftly crafted prose. The playwright actually invented something here; she calls it choreopoem. I would absolutely love to see this play live; the dancing, the expression, the power behind these sentences, and the emotional drives of these ladies speaking their lifes' stories.
If there's a God, he wants you to read this. And if there's not, I guarantee you this is the next best thing to heaven. Possibly better.
There are a few versions of this play; I believe that I read the oldest one & the newest one. The only difference is an added section in the 2010 version, and it was pleasant to read, so I guess I'd recommend that one (why not take an extra fifteen pages of this play?). Really though, where to begin with this?
Stunning. An enigma. Poetic, deftly crafted prose. The playwright actually invented something here; she calls it choreopoem. I would absolutely love to see this play live; the dancing, the expression, the power behind these sentences, and the emotional drives of these ladies speaking their lifes' stories.
If there's a God, he wants you to read this. And if there's not, I guarantee you this is the next best thing to heaven. Possibly better.
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes