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A "choreopoem" first penned in 1974; winner of an Obie Award.
BOOK WORLD - November 14, 2010 Christopher Schoppa 2010
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A "choreopoem" first penned in 1974; winner of an Obie Award.
BOOK WORLD - December 5, 2010 Christopher Schoppa 2010
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A "choreopoem" first penned in 1974; winner of an Obie Award.
BOOK WORLD - December 5, 2010 Christopher Schoppa 2010
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His latest, based on Ntozake Shange's 1974 "choreopoem"
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A "choreopoem" about race and gender, first published in 1975.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Shange's Tony-nominated play, structured as a "choreopoem," has been staged on and off-Broadway and continues to be performed at community theaters and schools.
latimes.com - News 2010
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Runtime: 121 min. LAST WEEK'S NEWS announcement that Tyler Perry's next film would be an adaptation of Ntozake Shange's landmark 1970s "choreopoem," For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, was more exciting than the prospect of Why Did I Get Married Too?, the sequel to Perry's 2008 hit Why Did I Get Married.
New York Press 2010
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And even as a play, it wasn't characteristically that either -- 20 poems on the travails of black women mixed with music and other elements, it was self-referenced as a "choreopoem."
Wyatt Closs: For Colored Girls, And For Multiple Stakes Wyatt Closs 2010
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And even as a play, it wasn't characteristically that either -- 20 poems on the travails of black women mixed with music and other elements, it was self-referenced as a "choreopoem."
Wyatt Closs: For Colored Girls, And For Multiple Stakes Wyatt Closs 2010
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And even as a play, it wasn't characteristically that either -- 20 poems on the travails of black women mixed with music and other elements, it was self-referenced as a "choreopoem."
Wyatt Closs: For Colored Girls, And For Multiple Stakes Wyatt Closs 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word choreopoem
An interwoven series of poetic monologues set to music.
Coined by Ntozake Shange, author of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf," 1975.
October 31, 2018
bilby commented on the word choreopoem
Not a chore at all.
November 1, 2018