Contemporary Black Theatre
LeRoi Jones’ The Toilet and Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide both expose, or for a lack of better words, set forth the thematic question of what it means to be Black while exposing the beauty and struggle the label carries in the perspective of only Black men and only Black woman. How do these experiences compare and contrast, even though they are touching base on the same topic? These plays force the reader to question, is a black man or woman ever fully in control of their lives without having to loose all or feel as though they are being controlled? Essentially, why does one identity need to be suppressed in order for the other to be heard?
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