Tyler Perry To Take Shange's Play To Film

Variety has reported that Tyler Perry (creator of numerous stage, television, and film properties, many featuring his famous "Madea" character, as well as the upcoming film I Can Do Bad All By Myself) will be writing, directing, and producing a film version of Ntozake Shange's "choreo-poem" play for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf. The 1975 play, which was supposed to have a Broadway revival starring India.Arie last season (later postponed), is a series of poetic monologues from black women about everything from love and youth to abuse and abandonment.