Dramatiks Productions stages For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozoke Shange.

 Hear the Sound of Color! 

Dramatiks Productions  is proud to announce the opening of  Ntozoke Shange’s For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, a choreopoem, or series of poems choreographed to music. For Colored Girls expresses the many struggles and obstacles that African-American women have faced throughout their lives. While the play focuses on women of color, the poems are about women, love, family, abuse, relationships, identity, sexuality, choice and friendship, and are embodied by each woman's story, providing a sense of the interrelationships among the performers and of their gestures and dance movements.
The play begins and ends with the lady in brown. The other six performers represent the colors of the rainbow: the ladies in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. The various repercussions of "bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma" are explored through the words, gestures, dance, and music of the seven ladies, who improvise as they shift in and out of different roles.

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf is directed/produced  by Jennifer Miller under the umbrella of Dramatiks Productions.   The members of this extremely talented cast are Bria Hobgood, (Orange). Tametria Smith, (Yellow),  Kisha Guillory, (Purple), Kristana Marshall, (Red), Nyokia Mckeith (Green), NeeKee Mcdonald (Blue) and Gale Whitting, (brown).

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf opens Thursday, February 24-28th, and runs for one weekend only. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 3:00 pm.  Tickets are $15 and $10 with senior, student and group discounts available. Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office at (337) 291-1122, by going to the box office or by visiting Cite’s website.