A review by readmomteach86
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

4.0

I really need to make a habit of reading more plays, because every time I do I have so much fun! This play had moments that were so amazingly potent and screamed its message right in your face and others that made you say “what on earth is that about?” I’ll be looking up the filmed version to watch ASAP because I can tell it’s a piece that needs to be seen to be fully appreciated. What I did get from this read, though, was a thread of pain, negligence, violence, abuse, and invisibility—all of which were demonstrated in metaphorical and literal ways. And the ending is without a doubt a lasting image that will stay with me for a long, long while. Not a read for the faint of heart.