✍🏾: @tiff.chey
Have you ever heard of or seen a version of #NtozakeShange‘s choreopoem “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”? It inspired the film ‘For Colored Girls,’ and was recently revived and reimagined for Broadway!
This production is being directed and choreographed by #CamilleABrown who also made history by becoming the first Black woman to direct and choreograph a show on Broadway in 65 years.
Written by Shange, who passed away in October 2018, #ForColoredGirls chronicles the lives of seven very different Black women and how they unite in order to overcome and heal from their various struggles and/ or trauma. It encompasses various experiences that Black women embrace and endure such as rape, abortion, shame, death, defiance, strength, and laughter.
Each woman finds their strength and rejoices in each other’s humor and passion through a fusion of music, dance and poetry that explodes off of the stage and resonates with the audience while sharing the feelings of joy and sisterhood for colored girls. Sharing their stories displays the women’s vitality, togetherness and loyalty to each other. Love sustains them and makes for a bracing, life-impacting thing for us to immerse ourselves in.
The production team at the Public Theater worked hard to deliver such a transparent and fluid display to allow the audience to appreciate and fully understand the story and how it is being told. When the COVID-19 pandemic happened, the theater closed down, but now that everybody’s outside, the production was revived and came back stronger than ever!
If you can see it on stage, go check it out! It will be on Broadway until August 14th! #BWLM💕
