{"id":612,"date":"2015-12-14T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/?p=612"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:08:35","slug":"a-visit-from-the-cast-of-for-colored-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2015\/12\/14\/a-visit-from-the-cast-of-for-colored-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"a visit from the cast of For Colored Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/idriscast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-614\" alt=\"idriscast\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/idriscast-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/idriscast-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/idriscast-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/idriscast-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/idriscast.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>In December of 2015, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idrisgoodwin.com\/\">Idris Goodwin<\/a> directed a sold-out production of Ntozake Shange&#8217;s choreopoem <em>For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide &#8230; When the Rainbow is Enuf<\/em> at Colorado College. He and the cast (Alexandra Farr, Lyric Jackson, Jazlyn Andrews, Jaiel Mitchell, Justice Miles, Brittany Comancho, Deaira Cooper, and Erica Willard) stopped by Special Collections last week to take a look at a first edition of the book, which was first published in 1975 by Shameless Hussy Press in 1975.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/bookhands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-613\" alt=\"bookhands\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/bookhands-1024x576.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/bookhands-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/bookhands-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/12\/bookhands-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December of 2015, Idris Goodwin directed a sold-out production of Ntozake Shange&#8217;s choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide &#8230; When the Rainbow is Enuf at Colorado College. He and the cast (Alexandra Farr, Lyric Jackson, Jazlyn Andrews, Jaiel Mitchell, Justice Miles, Brittany Comancho, Deaira Cooper, and Erica Willard) stopped by Special Collections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cc-special-collections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-9S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}