This weekend For Colored Girls hits theaters, the theatrical adaptation of a 1975 dramatic prose poem, for colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf. Do you think Ntozake Shange‘s critically acclaimed “choreopoem” will translate to the screen?
Written and directed by Tyler Perry, the film stars Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, and Whoopi Goldberg. The trailer is embedded above.
Here’s more about the book: “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.”