“Under the firm direction of Tony-winning director Rebecca Taichman, the play is full of light and laughter…”
– Variety
School Girls
by Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by Rebecca Taichman
MCC Theater | World Premiere
November 2017
Mark Taper Forum
2018
SET DESIGN: Arnulfo Moldano
COSTUMES: Dede Ayite
LIGHTING DESIGN: Jen Schriever
SOUND: Palmer Hefferan




Rebecca Taichman, a recent tony Award winner for Indecent, provides a fast-paced staging that make the play engaging from the first minute to the last. She elicits terrific performances.”
– Los Angeles Times
“Under director Rebecca Taichman’s confident hand, School Girls rolls swiftly through its 75 minutes. The setup is brisk and clear, and it doesn’t take long for the pins to start falling. For the most part, we know how they’ll fall, but that’s okay. School Girls is formulaic without being unsatisfying. Familiar structures, especially when full of fresh faces and sharp humor, can be deeply enjoyable.”
– Vulture
“…something fascinating happens when the author, Jocelyn Bioh, a New York playwright and actor, applies those templates to the world of her parents, who emigrated from Ghana in 1968. The nasty-teen comedy genre emerges wonderfully refreshed and even deepened by its immersion in a world it never considered. The outline of “School Girls,” gleefully directed by Rebecca Taichman at the Lucille Lortel Theater, will seem both familiar and not…. But mostly and smartly, she trusts the form; there’s a reason these stories work.Ms. Taichman’s production highlights all of those reasons, which include the pleasure of put-downs but also of community. One of the production’s chief assets is the delicious ensemble work of the actors playing the four other girls.”
– New York Times


-Hollywood Reporter
“No need to wait for the April opening of Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls” to watch young women eviscerate each other on stage… stake(s) out that familiar territory in intriguing, thought-provoking work… performed by a terrific ensemble cast…In “School Girls,” staged by current “it” director Rebecca Taichman, it is a young woman just returned from America whose lighter skin makes her in the eyes of some more likely to win the Miss Ghana title. Imagine how Paulina reacts to that.”
– Newsday
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