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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf*

• 1982 ----- color ----- 80 min ----- dvd
• (Produced by Lindsay Law. Starring Alfre Woodard, Lynn Whitfeld, and Ntozake Shange).
  This play is based on a poem by Ntozake Shange. The production uses song, poetry and dance to illustrate the story and struggle of the seven women within the play and black women in America in general. The cast share with the viewer their exuberance for life and their ability to begin again, no matter how ridiculous the odds.
  [A selection from The Donald Bartholomew archive]. (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)
• Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Afro-American, Drama)

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