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DVD

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For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Performers

Alfre Woodard, Lynn Whitfield, Ntozake Shange.

Publication Information

West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur ; [2002]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

This vivid "choreopoem" illuminates the story and struggle of black women in America. The seven women comprising the cast share their exuberance for life and their ability to begin again, no matter how ridiculous the odds.

Notes

Title from container.

"Broadway Theatre Archive."

"Originally staged for the theatre by the New York Shakespeare Festival, presented by Joseph Papp"--Container.

Originally broadcast as an episode of American Playhouse in 1982.

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