Word: fugard
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...Athol Fugard has set My Children! My Africa! in Camdeboo, South Africa in the autumn of 1985, and the different ways his three characters choose to fight the lunacy are freighted with historical poignancy. "Mr. M" (Allen Oliver) wants sustained change through education and discipline, but his protege Thami (Donald Swaby) wants direct action, revolutionary action. Isabel (Eliza Gagnon) is afraid that, in the upheaval she knows is necessary for change, Thami will dismiss their friendship as "an old-fashioned idea...
...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...
...stricken, dignified posture at the end of Master Harold is subtle and powerful acting, and his performance throughout the play lifts the Lyric Stage's production to an interpretation of Fugard's terrible, wonderful play that does it justice...