School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play- Page 2

[bear88]

I had planned to see this play live at the Berkeley Rep but Covid-19 got in the way of that. I was able to see a tech rehearsal that was filmed just before things were shut down in the SF Bay Area. It wasn't the ideal circumstances for the actors or the poor camera operator, but I was pleased both to support the theater and to see the play, which veers impressively from silly to serious in a tidy 80-minute running time. We learn a lot about these characters, and certainly Paulina and new rival Ericka, during that time. I was impressed with Jocelyn Bioh's ability to borrow familiar tropes and put them in a new context that is both entertaining, enlightening (pardon the pun), and heartbreaking. The actress playing Paulina, Akilah Walker, is particularly good as the play moves to its conclusion.

[Fan123]

The Goodman Theatre is also selling tickets to a stream of their recent production:

https://www.goodmantheatre.org/streamschoolgirls

(I'm pretty sure this is a different thing to the PBS version?)

[kole_willms]

I have been out of the PBS loop for a while. I just sat and watched it. Just as good the second time around. It was beautifully filmed also. 

[uncageg]

kole_willms said: "I have been out of the PBS loop for a while. I just sat and watched it. Just as good the second time around. It was beautifully filmed also."

Very weird. Your post was verbatim what I posted but did not show as a quote? Did you just copy and paste it?

 

[Sutton Ross]

kole_willms said: "I have been out of the PBS loop for a while. I just sat and watched it. Just as good the second time around. It was beautifully filmed also."

It was truly beautifully filmed.  

[crocoyes6]

Paulina’s reign as the haughty ‘queen bee’ at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school may be over when Ericka, the daughter of a local cocoa tycoon, transfers in from Ohio for her senior year. Throwing unsparing light on questions of ambition, deceit, and the ultimate value of a fair-skinned complexion, this biting comedy by Jocelyn Bioh reinvents the American “Mean Girl” genre to explore the universal similarities (and glaring differences) facing teenage women across the globe.

[apkstat]

LightsOut90 said: "there was a plan https://ome-tv.com/  https://bazoo-cam.com/ to transfer it last season and it feel apart, probably no chance of it happening atleast not with the original cast (one girl is gonna be on some NBC show I think https://ometv.pro/ )"

i got same issue/problem.

[carterbean]

Excellent play.
It’s a awesome show. But it’s not a Broadway Show. As cool as it would be to have a show like this on broadway I don’t think broadway audiences would pay for it.