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"Master Harold"...and the boys is a play by Athol Fugard. 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, where it ran for 344 performances.
- Athol Fugard
- 1982
Here we get the first half of the kite story, Hally’s version of the story, the half of the story that he could see from his vantage as a white person. Even as a child, when Sam and Willie were his main companions, Hally was keenly aware that the two men were of a different race and class than his own.
Realism"Master Harold"... and the Boys subscribes to the school of realism in that the actions and dialogue of the three characters are very much as they would be in real life This is not ...
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.
In an interview after its publication, Athol Fugard acknowledged that “Master Harold” was written in part to atone for an incident between him and a black friend and mentor really named Sam who worked in his mother’s store.
They both agree that Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, is a true genius. The three reenact some scenes of education from Hally’s boyhood that took place in Sam and Willie’s servants’ quarters.
Based on events from Fugard’s life, Master Harold is renowned for its evocation of painful memories from South Africa's troubled history. He strikingly portrays the pervasive racism and patriarchy of the time while working to exorcise his own personal demons.
