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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">The African American Cultural Center of the Capital Region</span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">and </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">The State St. Theatre Company</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">present</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">
<font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Ntozake Shange's</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">directed by Karen Christina Jones</font></p>
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<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">i am on the other side of the rainbow / picking up the
pieces of days spent waitin for the poem to be heard / while you listen / i
have other work to do</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Ntozake Shange New York, 1976</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Ntozake Shange's choreopoem, <i>for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf,</i> is a product of the poetry movement in early
1970s Berkley, California, when women of diverse hues were filled with wild and
ripe words. Until that time, black women thirsted for venues of
self-expression. Theatrical pieces about black America focused on their male
counterparts.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Shange developed <i>for
colored girls...</i> from the lack of our voice. She wrote and compiled pieces
from various performances which changed the face of American theater. Due to
its wildfire popularity, <i>for colored
girls...</i> opened at New York's Booth's theater in September of 1976.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">The piece is a collection of poems told by seven women, each
character represented by a color. My personal experience with the piece is a
circle.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">As a child, I remember my parents going to a performance and
being fascinated with the program. As a college student, I performed as Lady in
Red with all of the intensity associated with that color.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><i>for colored girls...</i>
fills me with the power which is the focal point of the piece -- the power of
expression utilized by Black American women in words and movement.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">
<font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><b>The Women</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Shauntay Brandon</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Rebekah Brisbane</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Danielle Charlestin</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Nicole Dama</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Chevell Edwards</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">
<font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Deidre Smith</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Bianca Stinney</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Doreen Watson </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Gwen Wright</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">
<font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Production Dates are Friday, March 7th at 7.00pm; Saturday, March 8th at 8.00pm; Sunday, March 9th at 2.00pm</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">and Friday, March 14th at 8.00pm; Saturday, March 15th at 8.00pm; Sunday, March 16th at 2.00pm.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">
<font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Performances will be held at the African-American Cultural Center of the Capital Region</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"> 135 S. Pearl Street, Albany, NY.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Tickets are $20.00. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">
<font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:16px;text-align:left">Order tickets via Eventbrite:</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:16px;text-align:left">
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<font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><a href="http://www.aacccr.org" target="_blank">www.aacccr.org</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">For more information contact: <a href="tel:518.227.0154" value="+15182270154" target="_blank">518.227.0154</a> or <a href="mailto:statestreet2424@gmail.com" target="_blank">statestreet2424@gmail.com</a>. </font></p>
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