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"FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF"

Continuing the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration series, an all-Denison cast presented the Ntozake Shange choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf." Under the direction of Ron Pitts, director and co-founder of the Ujima Theatre Company, the play premiered at the King Arts Complex in Columbus and moved to the Denison Campus for two more performances.

Cast members pictured in the front row, from left, are: Jessica Blaise, Natasha Wright and Tyra Owens. Back row, from left: Jamie McDonald, Courtney Herring, Hawa Kaba, Shavely Peralta and Tiffany Williams.

The cast created a dynamic work of art that portrayed the strength of black women and their will to survive through despair and poverty, sexisim and racism.

The cast created a dynamic work

The play consists of 20 poems set to music. Lady in Red, Natasha Wright '10, (Aurora, Colo.), "with no further assistance from you I am ending this affair."

Lady in Red, Natasha Wright '10

Lady in Brown, Tiffany Williams, '09, (Chicago, Ill.), "Dark phrases of womanhood never havin' been a girl."

Lady in Brown, Tiffany Williams '09

Lady in Blue, Shavely Peralta '11 (Boston, Mass.) and Lady in Purple, Jessica Blaise '10 (Boston, Mass.), "I found God in myself & I loved her/I loved her fiercely."

Lady in Blue, Shavely Peralta '11 and Lady in Purple, Jessica Blaise '10