Sep 4 2009Tyler Perry Adapting Play for a Very Specific Demographic

New Tyler Perry! Only this time T.P. isn't directing something from his own melodrama-and-sass-filled mindscape. Variety reports America's favorite comic transvestite is adapting For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf for the big screen. Wikipedia describes the play thusly:

For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, referred collectively as a "choreopoem", performed through a cast of nameless women, each known only by a color: "Lady in Yellow", "Lady in Purple", etc.. The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion. The performances of the seven actresses are focused on their specific stories; i.e., Lady in Blue's visceral account of a woman who chooses to have an abortion; and Lady in Red's tale of domestic violence.

Well, that certainly sounds like a Tyler Perry. So long as there's also a Lady character known as "Lady in a Fat Suit and a Wig, and the Lady is Actually a Man."