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 ... It is performed by a cast of seven women characters, each of whom is known only by a color: "Lady in more ...

"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 ...