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Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls at The Nash

Courtesy of Leah Marche | Posted on October 13, 2019

Where

The Nash
110 E Roosevelt St
Phoenix, AZ
Map
(602) 795-0464

Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls at The Nash

When

Thu, October 24, 2019
7:30 am

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L!VE POET!C honors the one-year anniversary of the passing of award-winning poet/playwright Ntozake Shange (Oct 18 1948 - Oct 27 2018) and her choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow Is Enuf" in an intimate theatrical reading event featuring a live band and DJ.

Capturing the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls..." is a groundbreaking "choreopoem" offering a spell-binding collection of vivid prose and free-verse narrative for a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry celebrating sisterhood and coming of age....

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