Word: fugard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Athol Fugard's play Master Harold...and the Boys, winner of numerous Best Play Awards, moves its audience emotionally and intellectually...
...Fugard sets his story of a white schoolboy and the two Black men who have befriended him (while working for his parents) in his native South Africa. Master Harold, called "Hally" (Brian Kleppe), wears a tie and blazer to school and comes home to the cramped St. George's Park Tea Room, where the entire one act play takes place. Sam (Jomo I. L. Ray) and Willie (E. William McGlaston), wiping the counter and scrubbing the floor, await him there...
...become Hally's substitute father over the years, and their recollections are beautiful and moving. Fugard's language is at its best here. Sam and Hally talk about the map of South Africa Hally had to make for school--Sam remembers all the cities; they remember Sam and Willie's old bedroom and they laugh about the kite Sam made for Hally...
...CHILDREN, MY AFRICA. South Africa's laureate of liberal anguish, Athol Fugard, staged the production at La Jolla Playhouse, near San Diego, of his harrowing play about the breakdown of civility and the possibility for compromise in his native land. As always with Fugard, the language is poetic, the vision inspiring and the truth unflinchingly confronted...
...CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! South Africa's laureate of liberal anguish, Athol Fugard, staged the La Jolla Playhouse's production, near San Diego, of this harrowing play about the breakdown of civility and of the possibility for compromise in his native land. As always with Fugard, the language is poetic, the vision inspiring and the truth unflinchingly confronted...