Book : For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/when...

-Titulo Original : For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/when The Rainbow Is Enuf (scribner Classics)

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This revolutionary, award-winning play by a lauded playwright and poet is a fearless portrayal of the experiences of women of color-“extraordinary and wonderful…that anyone can relate to” (The New York Times) and continues to move and resonate with readers today more than ever.From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papps 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, Shanges 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. Review Overwhelming....Its joyous and alive, affirmative in the face of despair. --Daily News (New York)Passionate and lyrical...In poetry and prose Shange describes what it means to be a black woman in a world of mean streets, deceitful men, and aching loss. --New York Newsday Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1The stage is in darkness. Harsh music is heard as dim blue lights come up. One after another, seven women run onto the stage from each of the exits. They all freeze in postures of distress. The follow spot picks up the lady in brown. She comes to life and looks around at the other ladies. All of the others are still. She walks over to the lady in red and calls to her. The lady in red makes no response.lady in browndark phrases of womanhoodof never havin been a girlhalf-notes scatteredwithout rhythm/no tunedistraught laughter fallinover a black girls shoulderits funny/its hystericalthe melody-less-ness of her dancedont tell nobody dont tell a soulshes dancin on beer cans & shinglesthis must be the spook houseanother song with no singerslyrics/no voices& interrupted solosunseen performancesare we ghouls?children of horror?the joke?dont tell nobody dont tell a soulare we animals? have we gone crazy?i cant hear anythinbut maddening screams& the soft strains of death& you promised meyou promised me...somebody/anybodysing a black girls songbring her outto know herselfto know youbut sing her rhythmscarin/struggle/hard timessing her song of lifeshes been dead so longclosed in silence so longshe doesnt know the soundof her own voiceher infinite beautyshes half-notes scatteredwithout rhythm/no tunesing her sighssing the song of her possibilitiessing a righteous gospellet her be bornlet her be born& handled warmly.lady in brownim outside chicagolady in yellowim outside detroitlady in purpleim outside houstonlady in redim outside baltimorelady in greenim outside san franciscolady in blueim outside manhattanlady in orangeim outside st. louislady in brown& this is for colored girls who have considered suicidebut moved to the ends of their own rainbows.everyonemamas little baby likes shortnin, shortnin,mamas little baby likes shortnin breadmamas little baby likes shortnin, shortnin,mamas little baby likes shortnin breadlittle sally walker, sittin in a saucerrise, sally, rise, wipe your weepin eyesan put your hands on your hipsan let your backbone slipo, shake it to the easto, shake it to the westshake it to the onethat you like the bestlady in purpleyoure itAs the lady in brown tags each of the other ladies they freeze. When each one has been tagged the lady in brown freezes. Immediately Dancing in the Streets by Martha and the Vandellas is heard. All of the ladies start to dance. The lady in green, the l