Ntozake Shange
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Sep 25, 2026
Anita RaniHOST
combining verse with movement.
Anita RaniHOST
Written by Ntozake Shange, five African-American women only identified by the colours they wear share poetic monologues about love, loss, violence, motherhood, loneliness and survival.
Anita RaniHOST
The show's director is the award-winning Diane Page and she joins me now.
Anita RaniHOST
Welcome.
Nikisha Elise WilliamsHOST
What is your favorite book?
Amena BrownGUEST
Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls, who I've considered suicide when the rainbow is enough.
Nikisha Elise WilliamsHOST
Who is your favorite author?
Amena BrownGUEST
It's got to be between Alice Walker and Toni Morrison.
Mickey JoHOST
Anyway, go see Elektra Persona at the National Theatre at your own risk.
Mickey JoHOST
[upbeat music] Next up, we have the first UK revival of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf, a landmark piece of theater written by Ntozake Shange, which is being revived for the first time in the UK, I believe, at the Yard Theatre, the newly reopened Yard Theatre.
Mickey JoHOST
And if you visited this previously, it has undergone something of a transformation.
Mickey JoHOST
This was my first time at a venue and we were treated to a tour, and it has been rebuilt with significant character, with sustainable development in mind, with a view to serving, uh, its audiences accessibly as well as its local community, all of which is fantastic.
Jessica Care MooreGUEST
I was like, what's this stuff they're wearing? But sports saved me.
Jessica Care MooreGUEST
from being absolutely just a full-time nerd in my black box theater at Cody High School, where I learned about Ntozake Shange, and I became a theater kid.
Jessica Care MooreGUEST
So definitely an artist probably my whole life and writer, but sports really, like, you know, basketball.
Jessica Care MooreGUEST
My J was real.
speaker_0HOST
What is one of your favorite plays of all time?
Pearl CleageGUEST
For Colored Girls, Ntozake Shange's classic piece, my favorite play ever.
Pearl CleageGUEST
I love that play.
speaker_0HOST
What is one of your favorite musicals of all time?
Brittany LuseHOST
... of her acting for...
Brittany LuseHOST
I saw her off-Broadway in a play called Blacks by the late Ntozake Shange, and I was like, "Who is this woman?" Alfre Fuller, fab.
Shatara Michelle FordGUEST
Yeah.
Brittany LuseHOST
But, like, that scene reveals so much about one of the central characters, Tasha, who's played so wonderfully by Sasha Compere.