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Ntozake Shange 1948-2018
Ms. Shange in 1977 in a production of “Where the Mississippi Meets the Amazon.”
She wrote the play with Jessica Hagedorn and Thuiani Nkabinde, who also performed it with her.
Photograph: Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times
Ntozake Shange, Who Wrote ‘For Colored Girls,’ Is Dead at 70 NYT October 28, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/
Ntozake Shange 1948-2018
spoken-word artist who morphed into a playwright with her canonical play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf,”
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Only 27 years old when “For Colored Girls” opened at the Booth Theater in 1976, Ms. Shange was a Broadway rarity on two counts: She was black and she was a woman.
But her unconventional play was a hit and nominated for a Tony Award.
A series of searing feminist monologues for seven black female characters named for the colors of the rainbow — Ms. Shange herself played the Lady in Orange — it inspired generations of playwrights coming up behind her.
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