For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf is Ntozake Shange's first work and most well known theater piece. It premiered in 1976. It is made up of a series of poetic monologues with dance movements and music. This is known as choreopoem. "for colored girls..." tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society.