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Let's call it "Layla's Dream," for short -- Ntozake Shange doesn't write conventional titles. We also know that from her best known play, the 1975 "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf."
Like "Colored Girls," "Layla's Dream" is a "choreopoem," which is to say, free-form poetry dramatized with plenty of expressive, usually abstract dance, recorded music and an occasional song.
As the title says, it's Layla's dream. So the central conflict we see is really internal, between her attraction to a sexy,...