[Capdist-announce] Afr-Am Cultural Center of the Capital Region and State St. Theatre Company present for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

[Karen Christina Jones]

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The African American Cultural Center of the Capital Region

and

The State St. Theatre Company

present


Ntozake Shange's


for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf


directed by Karen Christina Jones




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



Ntozake Shange New York, 1976



Ntozake Shange's choreopoem, *for colored girls who have considered suicide
when the rainbow is enuf,*  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.



Shange developed *for colored girls...* 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, *for colored
girls...*opened at New York's Booth's theater in September of 1976.



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.



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.



*for colored girls...* 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.



*The Women*

Shauntay Brandon

Rebekah Brisbane

Danielle Charlestin

Nicole Dama

Chevell Edwards

Barbara Howard

Deidre Smith

Bianca Stinney

Doreen Watson

Gwen Wright



Production Dates are Friday, March 7th at 7.00pm; Saturday, March 8th at
8.00pm; Sunday, March 9th at 2.00pm

and Friday, March 14th at 8.00pm; Saturday, March 15th at 8.00pm; Sunday,
March 16th at 2.00pm.


Performances will be held at the African-American Cultural Center of the
Capital Region, 135 S. Pearl Street, Albany, NY.


Tickets are $20.00.

www.aacccr.org


For more information contact: 518.227.0154 or statestreet2424 at gmail.com.
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