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The Sunday Play: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

BBC Radio 3
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By Ntozake Shange.
Five coloured girls embark on a journey of healing, utilising black musical forms to celebrate and mourn. With honesty and wit, their odyssey commemorates the triumphs of endurance, the joys of love, the survival of betrayal and what it means to be a coloured girl and find God in yourself.
Adapted by Bonnie Greer Musical director P P Arnold
Director Heather Goodman
A Big World Pictures production

Contributors

Unknown:
Ntozake Shange.
Adapted By:
Bonnie Greer
Director:
Heather Goodman
Lady blue:
P Arnold
Lady brown:
Pat Bowie
Lady yellow:
Nimmy March
Lady red:
Suzanne Packer
Lady purple:
Shezwae Powell
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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