For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide…When the Rainbow is Enuf
Current students and recent alumnae of UM Law star in a new production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide…When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, beginning at 8 p.m., Friday-Sunday, February 22-24, in Room 309 at the Law School.
Presented in celebration of Black History Month by the Association of Caribbean Law Students, the Black Law Students Association, and Miami Law Women, For Colored Girls… is a "choreopoem"-a play consisting of poetry and dance.
It was created in the mid-1970s to give voice to the experiences of African-American women who had come of age in the preceding two decades. The individual poems that make up the play vividly and powerfully convey the wide range of emotions associated with love and betrayal, dancing and sex, rape, abortion, and domestic violence.
When the show opened on Broadway in 1976, The New York Times raved, "Extraordinary and wonderful…Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite case and beauty that anyone can relate to her message." Twenty-five years later, the script retains its currency and emotional impact.
UM Law's production is directed by Prof. Marc Fajer and choreographed by third-year law student Jason Gibson. The cast consists of current students Christina Farley, Chioma Hibbert, Shaheewa Jarrett, and Stephanie Williams, as well as recent alumnae Lissette LaBrousse, Donnette Love, and Lucretia Pitts.
For ticket information, please call (305) 284-3914.
