2 September - 3 October 2026
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
2 September - 3 October 2026
About
"sing a black girl's song / bring her out / to know herself / to know you”
A landmark of theatre. Long overdue in London.
Stories of love and violence, joy and survival - and what it feels like to come out the other side.
Ntozake Shange's choreopoem returns - fifty years on from its first performance - in a new production, directed by Diane Page, with original music by Jammz.
Grief becomes chant. Movement becomes prayer. Together, they reach for something beyond.
Fifty years on. Still enuf.
This production is generously supported by Cockayne - Grants for the Arts and London Community Foundation.
With special thanks to our production circle, Carolyn Ward, Fiona Clements, Georgia Oetker, John Handscombe, and those who wish to remain anonymous. For information on joining our circle, email samantha@theyardtheatre.co.uk.
DATES & TIMES
2 September - 3 October
Monday - Saturday, 2:30pm & 7.00pm
PREVIEWS*
2-7 September, 7:30pm
MATINEES
Every Saturday and Wednesday starting 12 September, 2.30pm
*Previews are the first public performances of a production, before press come to review it. Tickets are sold at a reduced rate.
HOW TO BOOK
ONLINE
Click BOOK NOW to buy tickets online. A £2.50 booking fee applies.
BOX OFFICE
Call 020 3606 0164, Monday to Friday, 10am–5.30pm. A £3 booking fee applies, waived on Access tickets.
WAYS TO SAVE
NO EMPTY SEATS
If you’re aged 27 and under, you can get £5 tickets at the door to all performances that are not sold out. Just show up, and bring your ID.
CONCESSIONS
If you're aged 27 and under, 65+, a student or are unwaged, tickets are priced cheaper.
GROUP BOOKINGS
If you’d like to make a group booking (10+ tickets), email us.
ACCESS & SUITABILITY
ACCESS
Access tickets are priced as concessions and can be booked online. We offer free tickets for companions, and these must be booked by emailing boxoffice@theyardtheatre.co.uk
AGE GUIDANCE, CONTENT ADVICE & RUNNING TIME
They'll be available closer to opening. This show is still being made.
CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE
Thursday 1 October, 7pm
BSL PERFORMANCE
Thursday 24 September, 7pm
BECOME A MEMBER
Never miss out.
As a Yard member, you get priority booking, pay no exchange fees, and get every fourth show free. Three ways in: a free Yard Card, Yard Regular at £60 a year, or Yard Resident at £150.
Your membership goes straight back into the work. New writers, new shows, the chances we take.
Join inLate nights and afters
THU 10 SEP / WRITERS' NIGHT
A late-night conversation with writers from theatre, film, TV and poetry on what Ntozake Shange did to the canon and what's been done with it since.
Included with your ticket to the show that same evening.
FRI 11 SEP / NUFF, CURATED BY JAMMZ
Until late. A proper one.
Tickets sold separately.
THU 17 SEP / BLACK OUT NIGHT: FEMMES
A performance of for colored girls for an audience of Black femmes. Drinks before, drinks after. This one is for femmes: anyone who identifies with femininity, of any gender.
A Black Out Night is a performance where the audience is all Black. Sometimes you can imagine new worlds more clearly with people who've lived something close to yours.
Jeremy O. Harris ran the first of these for Slave Play on Broadway. We've run them at The Yard before, and we'll keep running them.
This performance has been programmed specifically for Black audiences. But we will not turn anyone away, or question anyone’s identity.
THU 24 SEP / DIANE PAGE × BERNARDINE EVARISTO
The director of the show in conversation with the legendary author of Girl, Woman, Other. One night only.
Included with your ticket on the same evening.
FRI 25 SEP / FILM CLUB
Short films picked to sit alongside the show. Some you might have seen, some you definitely won't have.
Tickets sold separately.