Who Played Lady in Purple in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf

Lady in Purple is a role in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf, a play that opened Off-Broadway in 1976.

Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, collectively called a 'choreopoem.' Shange's poetry expresses the many struggles and obstacles that African-American women face throughout thei...