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- Called a choreopoem by its author, the twenty-poem drama tells the stories of the joy, pain, suffering, abuse, strength, and resilience of African American women. Its seven female characters dress in colors representing the rainbow plus brown.
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Oct 9, 2019 · Her word was “choreopoem,” and any production of “For Colored Girls,” like the major revival now in previews at the Public Theater, has to figure out what the term means.
Called a choreopoem by its author, the twenty-poem drama tells the stories of the joy, pain, suffering, abuse, strength, and resilience of African American women. Its seven female characters dress in colors representing the rainbow plus brown.
The choreopoem is performed by a cast of seven nameless women only identified by the colors they are assigned. They are the lady in red, lady in orange, lady in yellow, lady in green, lady in blue, lady in brown, and lady in purple.
- Lynn F. Miller, Ntozake Shange
- 1975
A choreopoem is a form of dramatic expression that combines poetry, dance, music, and song. The term was first coined in 1975 by American writer Ntozake Shange in a description of her work, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
As the title of the choreopoem implies, the rainbow is a predominant symbol in the play, one consciously applied to the ladies' costumes, which are the colors of the rainbow, plus brown.
The term “colored girls” in the title refers to all females of color, though Shange’s focus in the choreopoem is particularly on black girls. In the only monologue spoken from a child’s point of view, the speaker does not find it easy to be a young black girl in St. Louis in 1955.
The various women in red, blue, brown, and green each have a deeply important set of experiences and emotions to share with the audience. Their names (or lack thereof) create a sense of...
