Live from the Lab: Master Harold & The Boys
Event Date
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Uptown Campus
Lab Theatre
Master Harold and The Boys by Athol Fugard
The Department of Theatre and Dance presents
LIVE FROM THE LAB
MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS
By ATHOL FUGARD Moderated by Dr. John Proctor
The Department of Theatre & Dance is again hosting Live From the Lab, a live play-reading series, with this season’s main focus exclusively being on international playwrights and playwrights of color.
On November 4th, our next reading from Live From the Lab reading will be Master Harold and The Boys by Athol Fugard, moderated by Dr. John Proctor. The play focuses on South Africa during Apartheid and depicts how institutionalized racism, bigotry or hatred can become absorbed by those who live under it.
About MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS:
"1950. Apartheid South Africa. St George's Park Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, 1950. On a long rainy afternoon, employees Sam and Willie practise their steps for the finals of the ballroom dancing championship.
Hally arrives from school to hide out in his parents’ tea room. These two men have been unlikely best friends to Hally his whole life. But it is apartheid era South Africa: he’s Master Harold, and they are the boys.”
"1950. Apartheid South Africa. St George's Park Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, 1950. On a long rainy afternoon, employees Sam and Willie practise their steps for the finals of the ballroom dancing championship.
Hally arrives from school to hide out in his parents’ tea room. These two men have been unlikely best friends to Hally his whole life. But it is apartheid era South Africa: he’s Master Harold, and they are the boys.”
Tony Award-winning playwright Athol Fugard’s semi-autobiographical and blistering masterwork explores the nature of friendship, and the ways people are capable of hurting even those they love.
The reading begins at 730pm. Refreshments are served and ADMISSION IS FREE!!!
Questions or want to be come involved in future readings? Please contactProfessor Chaffee at achaffee@tulane.edu or 310-497-4906
For more information contact: via email to achaffee@tulane.edu
For more information on this event, please visit https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/master-harold-and-the-boys
