![]() ![]() From a bare stage, seven women, identified only by the hues of their clothes, address the audience on a range of topics - sexuality, abortion, rape and domestic violence - that previously had been considered taboo. Just the second play by an African-American woman to reach Broadway, “for colored girls” was both structurally and thematically unique. “It gave birth to a whole new genre of theater.” Hotchner Studio Theatre at Washington University in St. Artist-in-Residence in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, who will direct “for colored girls” Nov. “I was an undergraduate when it came out,” said Ron Himes, the Henry E. Gradually, her body of work - a mixture of words and movement she dubbed “choreopoems” - began to take on dramatic structure.Īt Bacchanal, Shange collected 20 choreopoems into an evening-length piece titled “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.” Three years later, “for colored girls” was the Tony Award-winning toast of Broadway, its cast recording echoing through dorm rooms across the nation. Louis, was a 26-year-old poet, dancer and women’s studies teacher who’d been honing her craft in cafes, coffee shops and poetry houses in the Bay Area and New York. Shange, who’d spent much of her childhood in St. ![]()
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