The Rehearsal Process

These are stories called from the subconscious.It is the attraction of the text - the narrative.

The artistry and the layers of the rehearsal process, served as vertical syfers from which the subconscious emerged. The layers of language upon which the vehicle of this play moved had not such referrence as what would commonly be found in narrativce theater, but served as a canope of suggestive narrative that formed a network on each other and gave the piece and the rehearsal a suggestive atmosphere and ambience.


The credit to this non narrative approach and this methodology totaly avoided the banalaties of reinvesting a narrative and insead created an atmosphere of the pained subconscious of these women. Although in the span of this play the fundamental manifestation of the form of a narrative, we were called back to the web of the women's experiences. Almost as if these were now our expereinces shared with them.

The audence rode this vertical structure as well as the horizontal experience of time with these women, thus participating in fear, loneliness, eros, celebraation and arriving for the sake of the performance in a sense of communion.

 

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A Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange

for Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide / when the Rainbow is Enuf
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