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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.
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Hally spits in Sam ’s face and Sam starts calling him Master...
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"Master Harold" … and the Boys Characters Next. Hally....
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- Dance and Dream
Social dances like the foxtrot, quickstep, and waltz feature...
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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.
Seventeen-year-old Hally arrives home from school, and cheerfully asks about the dancing progress. Sam mentors the boy, wishing to guide him through adolescence into manhood, while Willie is the "loyal black"; who calls the white Afrikaner boy "Master Harold".
- Athol Fugard
- 1982
“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.
Dec 17, 2019 · But it is apartheid era South Africa: he’s Master Harold, and they are the boys. Tony Award-winning playwright Athol Fugard’s semi-autobiographical and blistering masterwork explores the nature of friendship, and the ways people are capable of hurting even those they love.
"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...
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Context. ”MASTER HAROLD” … and the boys” is Athol Fugard’s most biographical play: Fugard’s first name is Harold, his mother owned a tea room, and the relationship between Sam and Hally is based on the relationship he had with a Black man who worked for their family.
