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For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf

A new production of the 30-year-old play by Ntozake Shange.By Delores Jones (edited by Linda Sher)

Kansas City, MO – When the play came out 30 years ago, it was at the forefront of black feminist literature ? and thousands of women immediately identified with it. The InPlay Theater Company is now reviving For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf in Kansas City. KC Currents host Delores Jones spoke to director Jacquee Gafford about the new production.

The play opens Thursday, June 9 at the Just Off Broadway Theatre.

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