For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf a way that mimicked how real women speak so she could draw her readers' focus to the experience of reading and listening. In December 1974, Shange performed the first incarnation of her choreopoem with four other artists at a women's bar outside Berkeley, California. After moving to New York City, she continued work on "for colored girls...", which went on to open at the Booth Theatre in 1976, becoming the second play by a black woman to reach Broadway, preceded by Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" in 1959. Shange updated the original choreopoem in 2010, by adding the
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film) and voice work by Alec McCowen. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film) A Midsummer Night's Dream () is a 1959 Czechoslovak animated puppet film directed by Jiří Trnka. It is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. Trnka, working under the Czech communist regime who had previously been denied in his wish to adapt "Don Quixote", worked for several years on his adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The film established a new pinnacle of craftmanship: Cerise Howard, discussing the film in a retrospective on Trnka for "Senses of Cinema", describes the puppet animation as "more liquid, more