Tied ribbons made necks, so they could have heads and torsos. As a small child, she stuffed socks with red beans, raw rice, sawdust or palm leaves. Sitting among her dolls, Indigo looked quite mad. I’ve got earth blood, filled up with the Geechees long gone, and the sea.” “Mama, if you pull ‘em off, they’ll just grow back. Whenever her mother tried to pull the moss off her head, or clip the roses round her thighs, Indigo was laughing.
Having a moon in her mouth kept her laughing. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits. IF there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers.
Brown, and one poem not included in the original, here is the complete text of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.WHERE THERE IS A WOMAN THERE IS MAGIC. Now with new introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A.
First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing…every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century. Brown.įrom its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country for nearly fifty years. In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning play centering the wide-ranging experiences of Black women, now with introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A.
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