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    For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf

    For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf

    Presented by UpRise! Productions and Vortex Repertory Company at The VORTEX

    August 25-September 17, 2011

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     UpRise! Productions and VORTEX Repertory Company present a vibrant new production of Ntozake Shange’s award-winning play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf , opening Thursday, August 25 at 8 pm. Talkback sessions with the director, Zell Miller, III, will be held on Friday nights after the show.
    This salute to contemporary women warriors is a choreopoem that changed the face of American Theatre when it premiered in the 1970’s. It went onto inspire a new genre of theatre artist and later inspired a hit film (2010).

    For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf is directed by award-winning theatre artist Zell Miller, III. Choreography by Ananda Mayi Moss and Sadé Jones.

    The stellar cast features Whitney Weathersby, Sadé Jones, Chelsea Manasseri, Patricia Robinson, Ebony Stewart, Minerva Villa, and Chandra Washington.


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        The VORTEX

        2307 Manor Road
        Austin, TX 78722

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        Info Phone: 512-478-5282

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        Dates:
        August 25-September 17, 2011

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         8pm 

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