"Master Harold"...and the boys

by Athol Fugard

Director: Rebecca Haley Clark

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Following the epic sweep of the summer season, “Master Harold”...and the boys snaps us into the deeply intimate and intense. Set in the apartheid era of South Africa, we find ourselves in the tea shop of Harold’s family. Young Hally, who is white, spends the afternoon after school in the shop with two of the family’s servants, Sam and Willie, who are black. Over the course of 90 minutes, we bear witness to the shifting relationship between all of them; a relationship built both on love and respect, as well as one built on bigotry and institutionalized racism. Fugard’s autobiographical masterpiece is both joyous and brutal, with an ending that will leave you both stunned and inspired. It brings home SCS’s 2025 festival theme “No One is Alone” with a beautiful recognition – one that would lead Fugard to becoming one of the great playwrights of the 20th century.

This play contains racial themes and language; it also contains a brief moment of partial nudity. We encourage pre-teens to attend with a parent or guardian.

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