Program Cover
The above is the program for the Umoja Theatre Ensemble’s For Colored Girls who have considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf, put on in 1992. This is a well-known Black Arts choreopoem written by Ntozake Shange, and Knox College students producing it shows clear ties between the college and the Black Arts Movement.
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The Umoja Theater Ensemble was a theater troupe founded at Knox that focused on self-determination, presumably mostly focused on Black issues. This is almost like a microcosm of the Black Arts movement 20 years later, showing a focus on independence and putting on one of the most famous Black Arts theater productions.
Photos of the Production
Cast List
What a find, Guy. You’re exactly right. The choice of Ntozake’s play to be the first production of the Umoja Theater Ensemble reflects the Black Arts the ethos (and the stated ethos of the ensemble) of self-determination and unity.