Press Play with Madeleine Brand
'Mean Girls’ in Ghana, and how skin color in Africa determines who’s at the top of the pecking order
The play “School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play” is set at a boarding school in Ghana. There is a queen bee, her gang of loyal followers, and a new girl who shakes up the pecking order. The girls are competing to become Miss Ghana.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe play “School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play” is set at a boarding school in Ghana. There is a queen bee, her gang of loyal followers, and a new girl who shakes up the pecking order. The girls are competing to become Miss Ghana. An American-born, half-white girl arrives, and the pageant recruiter calls her more “universally appealing” than the other girls. You can see the play now through September 30 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
L-R: Abena Mensah-Bonsu, Mirirai Sithole, Paige Gilbert, Joanna A. Jones,
MaameYaa Boafo and Latoya Edwards in the MCC Theater
production of “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play.”
L-R: Joanna A. Jones and MaameYaa Boafo in “School Girls;
Or, the African Mean Girls Play.”
MaameYaa Boafo in “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play.”
