For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide Analysis

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“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf” a theatre to film that is full of drama that will make you laugh, cry, sad, and mad but most of all it will open the viewer's eyes to see the bigger issues that these women are dealing with. This play displays the uncomfortable and what some women feel to be embarrassing issues that most women would never talk about.
Oz Scott directed “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf” theatre to film production, and she tells the lives of seven women who have battled with several different demons and obstacles.
This realistic storyline and film is a series of 20 different poems told by 7 very different women who is identified as different colors,

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