Master Harold and the Boys

A detailed Summary of Master Harold and the Boys

of all of Athol Fugard's plays, "MASTER HAROLD...and the boys" is clearly

the most personal, as it was based on a painful incident from his youthful

days. During the ugliest years of the apartheid system, Fugard's critical

position against the South African regime resulted in most of his works being

banned in his homeland, so they had to be premiered on stages abroad, most notably the

Yale Repertory Theatre, where "MasterHarold" received its March 1982 worldwide

unveiling before moving on to Broadway a couple of months later.

Set in Port Elizabeth in 1950, at a time when Fugard was 17, the play was once the subject

of critcism for never referring specifically to the apartheid system, which was officially in

its third year of existence. Yet now -- nearly a half century from the day of its setting

several noteworthy subsequent roles, and most recently as Hambone in the acclaimed

Mr. Eskay is amazingly believable as a bright teenaged schoolboy who must make several

compassion and the need to espouse the party line hatred for blacks. Eskay's line delivery

is highly effective as Sam's tea room co-worker and highly ingratiating ballroom dance

somehow peers through the shattered remains when it's closing time at the St. George's

Daniel Conway's appealing set combines a sort of stark, mid-century South African

decadence with some ornate remembrances of a more glorious past. The effect of rain

rage) of dealing with a problematic father, together with the mixture of his personal

And this is what distinguishes the Studio effort here. The story takes place in a tea room

protegee.

Approximate Word count = 777
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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