National Theatre Live: 'Master Harold'... and the boys

National Theatre Live: 'Master Harold'... and the boys

2019 · 100 min · ★ 8.0 · Drama

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.

Directed by Roy Alexander Weise · Written by Athol Fugard

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