Teresa Wiltz of TheRoot.com reviews Tyler Perry’s film adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s play, ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf’.

She is underwhelmed. I saw the play performed at RISD Auditorium in the 80’s and I have not completely recovered. I wouldn’t see it again without a flame-proof coat and a bottle of Prozac. It’s hard to see how the play could translate into a movie, but the two forms are different, and Perry’s vision will be seen by people who have seen the play, and many more who haven’t.

Things have changed in thirty years, and things have stayed the same. Life is circular, optimists say it is a spiral to a higher level each time around.