QUICK TAKES - Sept. 5, 2009
Tyler Perry, who often appears in drag as the gun-toting grandmother Madea in his movies, will adapt the 1975 groundbreaking play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf” for the big screen.
Perry will produce, write and direct the film for Lionsgate, which plans to release the movie next year.
The Obie-winning play by Ntozake Shange is structured as a series of poems spoken by female characters, addressing issues of love, abandonment, rape and abortion.
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Greg Braxton
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