Master Harold...and the Boys
Athol Fugard · 1982
A white teenager in 1950s Port Elizabeth spits in the face of the Black man who raised him. Fugard wrote the most personal anti-apartheid play from his own childhood shame. It takes place in a tea room over one rainy afternoon. The spit scene is one of the most painful moments in modern theater because the love between the characters is real.
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Fugard explains his own metaphor until nothing is left to find: ballroom dancing as a world without collisions gets spelled out, then spelled out again. Sam is patient to the point of sainthood, which flattens him, and the kite memory returns exactly on schedule for the final blow. A devastating scene wrapped in a lesson plan.
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