Jasmine Guy is a river with many streams. The actress-singer-dancer-choreographer-speaker-
author can now add director to her impressive résumé of artistic expressions with her directorial debut of the provocative stage play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.

Guy has a regal presence about her, with an undercurrent of inner serenity — minus the prima donna melodramatics that first brought her national fame as Whitley on the Atlanta-based sitcom, “A Different World.”

The multitalented Southern belle and alluring Alvin Ailey alumna returns to her Atlanta hometown to inject her interpretation into Ntozake Shange’s 1975 classic, For Colored Girls, which opens Aug. 22 and runs through Aug. 31 at the 14th Street Playhouse.

“This piece is done in an abstract way, so that it’s a series of monologues among six black women with different experiences that come to the stage and they do their pieces in what they call a choreopoem,” she says about the elements of poetry, music and dance intertwined throughout this powerful and poignant play. “Music and dance [are] organically part of the way we communicate. It is a ritual. It is the way we love, the way we make love, talk and socialize. This play is like looking through a peephole into someone’s apartment about what’s going on when they’re alone, when they’re alone with a man, or when they’re alone with their kids.”
– terry shropshire

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