FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW

Stage Aurora Theatrical Company presents the Award winning Broadway Play and Film, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF by Ntozake Shange, May 8, 2011at the Stage Aurora Performance Hall —5188 Norwood Avenue, Jacksonville, FL (Inside the Mall at Gateway Town Center).

Stage Aurora in honor of Mother’s Day is presenting a encore performance of For Colored Girls… This passionately-feminist spellbinding choreopoem is a fluid collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives about and performed by black women. Through dance, music, and poetry, the women are united in sorrow, spirit, pride and soul. This groundbreaking work captures the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women in relation to all women. For Colored Girls... offers a transformative, riveting evening of talent, message, and theatre.

Director Dee Quaranta and Co-Director/ Executive Producer Darryl Reuben Hall. The powerful casts feature Joycelyn Petty as Lady in Brown; Chelsea Hunt as Lady in Yellow; Michelle Jones as Lady in Blue, DeeDee Ellis as Lady in Green; Candace Crump as Lady in Purple; Shauntel Bennett as Lady in Orange; Loretta Williams as Lady in Red; with choreography by Adriene Reid. This production explores mature themes not suitable for younger audiences. "A triumphant event, filled with humor. Pure theatre."-New York Daily News

One Performance Only:
Sundays, May 8 at 3:00 p.m.

Tickets will go on sale starting Monday, April 18, 2011. Ticket prices are: $15 in Advance and $20 at the Door. Tickets are $10 in Advance and $15 at the Door for seniors and students. Group rates are available. To purchase tickets call (904) 765-7372 or (904) 765-7373 or visit www.stageaurora.org. 5188 Norwood Av in the Gateway TownCenter Mall.