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Ground-breaking play thrills local audience
Nini Wacera (purple), Mbeki Mwalimu (brown), Narriane Nungo (extreme left), Rebecca Langley (blue), Wanjiku-Victoria Seest (face on Mbeki’s lap), Tana Gachoka and Melissa Kiplagat in a scene during the staging of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow Is Enuf” on November 23, 2023. PHOTO | POOL
‘For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf’ is a play staged in Kenya before. But never before had we seen it as such a majestic masterpiece that speaks volumes about the multifaceted lives of African-American women.
For Coloured Girls has been considered a ground-breaking work since its inception in the mid-1970s up to today. It’s never lost that radical status of being a theatrical platform where Black women’s voices reveal a full range of emotional issues rarely discussed openly in public before, like sex and its correlation with gender-based violence (GBV).
