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Master Harold and the Boys
Title: Master Harold and the Boys
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 796 | Pages: 3.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
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 …showed first 75 words of 796 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 796 total…this long one-act (a single scene, no
intermission), and in the process raises the more encompassing issues of interracial
friendship, betrayal of ideals, and the scars of slavery, no matter what the historical
context. Despite the pain and highly visceral reactions the play provokes, (and this
excellent Studio Theatre production captures them vividly), Fugard's vision of hope
somehow peers through the shattered remains when it's closing time at the St. George's
Park Tea Room.
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