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Broadway Play 'School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play' Reviewed
Two reviews of Jocelyn Bioh’s play ‘School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play’ highlight its exploration of girlhood dynamics and social hierarchies in a Ghanaian school setting. Critics praise the work for capturing the complexities of adolescence.
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Variety
Late girlhood has a sacredness that can’t be replicated. It’s a particular time in life between innocence and adulting, allowing young women to swing between the two. Jocelyn Bioh’s sensational play, “School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play,” captures this magic and anguish, set against the sp
2026-09-29 01:30 UTC
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The battle lines are drawn early and definitively in Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. The cruelties come fast and cut deep in this Ghana school lunch room where all the unspoken rules of adolescent pick-or-be-picked-upon are as strict as they are in high schools th
2026-09-29 01:30 UTC