Broadway Review: “School Girls; Or the African Mean Girls Play” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Currently On)
Eighteen-year-old Paulina Sarpong (Denée Benton) commands the pack of four fellow students at Aburi Girls Boarding School in central Ghana with a chilling blend of charisma and cruelty. Beautiful and talented, she wields power the way a practiced bully does—not through aggression alone, but through the magnetism that makes her pack want her approval even as they fear her judgment….