‘School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play’ Broadway Review: When Escape Is Just A Clique Away

Jocelyn Bioh's Broadway production, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, depicts a Ghanaian school lunch room where adolescent social hierarchies are strictly enforced. The play explores fast-paced cruelties and unspoken rules of teenage cliques. Denée Benton, known for HBO's The Gilded Age, delivers a performance compared to a teenage Lady Macbeth, exhibiting a level of cattiness that surpasses characters in Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, cementing her role as a formidable presence.