JOMC 441- Extra Credit

"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf"

This past week at UNC "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf" has been showing in the dramatic arts center. A student, Jamila Reddy sought it important to have this play put on for the UNC campus. Many issues that the young ladies face in this play are pertinent to the lives of many students on campus and Miss Reddy believed those stories definitely needed to be heard.

"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf" is a stage play written by Ntozake Shange in 1975. The series of poems in the stage play deal with women who are going through abortions, abusive relationships, and being raped. I saw the play on Tuesday and was extremely moved. The young ladies on campus that performed in the play where excellent and really embodied their characters. I thought the play was essential because some of the stories that were shared I have been through with my friends. I commend Miss Reddy for taking a stand and following through with a dream she saw that needed to come true.

In further reaserch of this stageplay I came to find out that Tyler Perry is making it into a movie called 'For Colored Girls.' The movie will have all-star cast such as: Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Kimberly Elise, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Whoopi Goldberg, Kerry Washington, Jill Scott, and Macy Gray. The movie is set to come out in January 2011. I'm sure it will be great!