master harold and the boys
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Master Harold and the Boys. By Athol Fugard. Athol Fugard [At O l´ fy OO ´gard]. White South African Born June 11,1932 in the remote village of Middleburg, Cape Province Parents were English and Afrikaner Father = Irish and catholic Mother = Afrikaner - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Master Harold and the Boys
By
Athol Fugard
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Athol Fugard [AtOl´ fyOO´gard]
White South African Born June 11,1932 in the remote village
of Middleburg, Cape Province Parents were English and Afrikaner
• Father = Irish and catholic
• Mother = Afrikaner Raised in Port Elizabeth, South Africa English is his mother tongue
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More Biographical Info. …
He attended Cape Town University In 1958, he moved to Johannesburg
where he worked as a court clerk, an experience that made him keenly aware of the injustices of Apartheid.
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Continued… His credits include: dramatist, actor,
and director. Beginning in 1958, Fugard, despite
South African drama's particular vulnerability to censorship, sustained a theatre group in Port Elizabeth that produced plays defiantly indicting the apartheid policy.
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Other background on Fugard
Fugard hitchhiked from Cape Town to Johannesburg and boarded a British merchant vessel as the only white crew member.
During his two years as a sailor Fugard began to judge people by their "personality and merits" rather then by skin color.
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His Works:
His first work, Blood Knot, was published in 1961.
Since then approximately 10 more of Fugard's works have been published.
•Including:
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The Road to Mecca 1984 Blood Knot 1985 A Place with the Pigs 1987 My Children! My Africa! 1989 Playland 1993 A Valley Song 1996 The Captain's Tiger 1999
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More… He began with acting experience Then he started writing plays
• almost always set in South Africa
• steeped in the politics of the day (apartheid and now post-apartheid).
In 1963 he was working with the Serpent Players.
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His plays
His characters typically demonstrate strengths and weaknesses which make them unable to fit into what society requires.
Some of his plays are grouped together: The Port Elizabeth plays, the Township plays and the Statement plays. His latest play is The Captain's Tiger.
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Fugard writes of the frustrations of life in contemporary South Africa and of overcoming the psychological barriers created by apartheid.
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Master Harold… and the Boys
Master Harold... and the Boys was first published in 1982.
It is a play with only three (seen) characters.
• Harold
• Sam
• Willie
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Master Harold… & the Boys Brief Summary:
When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness against the two black men who work for the family.
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Master Harold… and the Boys contrasts the world of apartheid with the
ideal world of "no collisions"that Sam describes.
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As with many of Fugard's works, Master Harold, has a fairly open ending, suggesting that resolution is up to the efforts of the viewer.
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Play information continued…
Master Harold…and the Boys is considered the most autobiographical of Fugard's works
As in the play
• Fugard's own father was a cripple
• his mother managed a boarding
house and a tea room.
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