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Set in 1950, it was first produced at the Yale Repertory Theatre in March 1982 and made its premiere on Broadway on 4 May at the Lyceum Theatre, [1] where it ran for 344 performances. The play takes place in South Africa during apartheid era, and depicts how institutionalized racism, bigotry or hatred can become absorbed by those who live under it.
- Athol Fugard
- 1982
Hally spits in Sam ’s face and Sam starts calling him Master Harold. Sam warns Master Harold that he has hurt only himself. He asks Willie if he should hit Hally, and Willie tells him not to because it won’t help and he’ll only hurt himself. Hally, Willie says, is a little boy, a little white boy.
It is a rainy day in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The year is 1950. Because the poor weather is keeping customers away, the two black waiters at the St. George’s Park Tea Room, Sam and Willie, have some spare time on their hands. Sam reads comic books while Willie practices ballroom dance.
“MASTER HAROLD” . . . and the Boys opens on the set where the entire play takes place, a tea room in the South African city of Port Elizabeth in 1950. The tables and chairs have been stacked ...
First produced at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1982, Athol Fugard’s “ Master Harold ” . . . and the Boys is based on the playwright’s early life in South Africa. But the play itself is not a simple retelling of an incident from his past.
First Staging: Because of what the conservative government of South Africa saw as radical racial content, “Master Harold”… and the boys was banned from the stage in that country. As a result, it debuted at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1982.
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" MASTER HAROLD"...and the Boys is a play by Athol Fugard in which Hally, a white South African boy, lashes out at Sam and Willie, two black employees at his mother's tearoom.
