The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Unlike the original play which featured only 7 women known by colors ...

Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, collectively called a 'choreopoem.' Shange's poetry expresses the many struggles and obstacles that African-American women face throughout ...

"I think the best part about this play is telling each story by bringing the characters to life on stage,” Willa Watts said about her role as lady in blue in “for colored girls who have ...