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TWU Drama presents Ntozake Shange’s ‘For Colored
Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enough’
11/10/05
DENTON —
A perspective on what it means to be a female of color in
modern America is offered in “For Colored Girls Who
Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enough,”
a Texas Woman’s University Theater Department production
scheduled Nov. 17-20.
Performances are
scheduled at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov.
20 in TWU’s Patio Building, located at Oakland and Third
streets on the university’s Denton campus; and at 8
p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18 and 19, at Art Six Coffee
House, 424 Bryan St. in Denton. Admission to all performances
is $5 per person. For more information, contact the TWU Box
Office at (940) 898-2020.
“For Colored
Girls” is a series of 20 poems dealing with subjects
such as love, abandonment, rape and abortion. The cast is
comprised of nameless women who are known only by a color.
TWU’s production
is directed by Sasha Truman-McGonnell and is presented in
conjunction with the university’s Office of Intercultural
Services, The Multicultural Student Network and the Progressive
Black Student Organization.
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For Further
Information Contact:
Karen Garcia
Senior Copywriter
Tel: (940) 898-3456
e-mail: kgarcia@twu.edu |
