编剧: Ntozake Shange / Nzingha Stewart
导演: Tyler Perry
主演: Janet Jackson / Whoopi Goldberg / Phylicia Rashad / Jurnee Smollett / Kimberly Elise / Kerry Washington / Macy Gray / Loretta Devine / Anika Noni Rose / Thandie Newton

制片国家/地区: 美国
上映时间: 2011-01-14
语言: 英语

" For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" is first plaed by Ntozake Shange in 1975. Initially staged in California, it has been performed Off-Broadway and on Broadway, and adapted as a book, a television movie, and a planned theatrical film. The 1977 Broadway production was nominated for a Tony Award for best play.
　　
Structurally, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" is a series of 20 poems, referred collectively as a "choreopoem", performed through a cast of nameless women, each known only by a color: "Lady in Yellow", "Lady in Purple", etc.. The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion. The performances of the seven actresses are focused on their specific stories; i.e., 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," where Shange evokes the power of womanhood as the Lady in Red begins the mantra "I found God in myself/ and I loved her/ I loved her fiercely."