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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.
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.
So “Master Harold” … and the boys debuted at the Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut, on March 12, 1982. This was the first time Fugard chose to debut one of his plays outside South Africa.
Jan 1, 2001 · An Afrikaner mother bore Athol Fugard to a Roman Catholic father of Irish extraction. He considers an Afrikaner but in English reaches a larger audience. After his birth, his family quickly moved to Port Elizabeth. In 1938, the Marist brothers college, a Roman Catholic primary school, enrolled him.
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“Master Harold”…and the boys, a one-act play by South African playwright Athol Fugard, premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater in 1982. The play, which is set in 1950, draws on Fugard’s own experience growing up during South Africa’s apartheid era.
