Kay, Jackie. “Afterword to Chiaroscuro”. Lesbian Plays, edited by Jill Davis, Methuen, 1987, pp. 82 - 3.
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Ntozake Shange
Standard Name: Shange, Ntozake
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Alice Walker | This job cemented her friendship with Gloria Steinem
. Later, after her divorce, AW
and June Jordan
started The Sisterhood, a group of black women, artists of one kind of another, who met regularly for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Bernardine Evaristo | Evaristo lists her influences as including The Bone People by Keri Hulme
, Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
, The Famished Road by Ben Okri
, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
,... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jackie Kay | While writing this play, JK
was reading Ntozake Shange
's For Colored Girls . . . , and admired the way she made poetry work as theatre |
| Performance of text | Aphra Behn | It was published after 2 July with a dedication to the Earl of Rochester
(not her friend the poet, who had died six years before); AB
stopped the press until she was ready with her... |
Timeline
7 July 1975
The first work by the Afro-American writer Ntozake Shange
opened off Broadway in New York: the choreopoem (or verse sequence for musicalperformance with dance) For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the...
7 July 1975
The first work by the Afro-American writer Ntozake Shange
opened off Broadway in New York: the choreopoem (or verse sequence for musicalperformance with dance) For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the...
1980
The Women's Playhouse Trust
was founded to improve opportunities in the theatre for women writers, directors, designers, administrators, technicians and actresses,
Page, Louise. Beauty and the Beast. Methuen in association with the Women’s Playhouse Trust, 1986.
between 22 and 23