Stylized
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
A "choreopoem" that blends poetry and music to reveal the experiences of black women through a tapestry of stories.
Aria
A short one-act one woman show. The performer is called upon to play a wide range of ages, classes, styles, voices and roles of women. As bride, wife, earth mother, executive, Virgin Mary, drunk white woman, and woman of the rolling head, the diva takes the audience on a raucous, reverential, and riveting tour of Native womanhood ending with Mother Earth herself.
About Playwright(s)
Cast Information
Cultural background of characters
Total number of characters
Minimum number of actors
Female roles
Male roles
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Transgender roles
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Non-Binary Gender Non-Conforming roles
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Gender unespecified roles
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Age of characters
Actor-Friendly Parts
Monologue level
Monologue details
Solo Show. Three monologues with potential: The Prositute; The Execuitive Secretary and The Lover of Men
Scene level
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Scene details
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Production and Publication
First produced
1987, Native Earth Performing Arts, Toronto
Publication year
2003
Published by
Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN
9780887546259
Included in Staging Coyote's Dream, edited by Ric Knowles and Monique Mojica Nominated for a Dora Award
Included in Staging Coyote's Dream, edited by Ric Knowles and Monique Mojica Nominated for a Dora Award
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