School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
It matters little that the situations are obviously old-hat, contrived, and manipulative; the African setting (with attendant accents) gives it a delightful twist, it’s written with wit, and—the exaggerations aside—it’s so well-crafted, that you find yourself absorbed for every one of its 80 uninterrupted minutes. "School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play" has some moments of bitterly divisive meanness b…