Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, collectively called a "choreopoem". "Shange's poetry expresses the many struggles and obstacles African-American women face throughout their lives. It is performed by a cast of seven women characters each of whom is only known by a color: "Lady is Yellow", "Lady in Purple" etc. The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape and abortion,embodied by each woman's story. e.g. Lady in Blue's visceral account of a woman who chooses to have an abortion, and Lady in Red's tale of domestic violence. The end of the play brings together all of the women for "a laying on of hands" in which Shange evokes the power of womanhood as the Lady in Red begins the mantra "I found God in my myself/and I loved her/I loved her fiercely."
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Always ... Patsy Cline
Dundalk Community Theatre (10/25 - 11/3) | ||
Murder at the Mansion presents
Glenview Mansion (11/1 - 11/3) | ||
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: Compass Rose Theater
Compass Rose Theater (2/28 - 3/30) | ||
Into the Woods
Vagabond Players (10/18 - 11/17) | ||
The Dinner Detective Comedy Mystery Dinner Show
The Dinner Detective Baltimore (11/9 - 11/9) | ||
Come From Away (Non-Equity)
Hippodrome Theatre- France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (4/18 - 4/19) | ||
Once Upon A Mattress
Third Wall Productions (11/1 - 11/10) | ||
The Crucible
Silhouette Stages (10/10 - 10/26) | ||
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