For Colored Girls
- Release Date
- November 5, 2010
- Director
- Tyler Perry
- Cast
- Kimberly Elise , Janet Jackson , Loretta Devine , Thandiwe Newton , Anika Noni Rose , Kerry Washington
- Runtime
- 120
- Main Genre
- Comedy
- Writers
- Tyler Perry , Ntozake Shange
- Tagline
- Many voices. One Poem.
Summary
In 1974, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” made its stage debut, combining poetry, dance and music, and most significantly, placing the black female experience center stage. In lyrical, honest, angry, funny and tender language, Shange’s “colored girls” evoked the feelings woven into the fabric of black female life in America. Within two years, the play became a Broadway sensation, won an Obie and Tony Award, and would eventually be produced in regional theaters throughout the country. Now, thirty six years later, filmmaker Tyler Perry adapts this landmark work for the big screen, integrating the vivid language of Shange’s poems into a contemporary narrative that explores what it means to be a woman of color - and a woman of any color - in this world.
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