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'Master Harold'... and the Boys Trailer (2011)
RLJE Films. (2011, May 18). Master Harold… and the boys: official trailer [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fNGJbWbLNs
Master Harold ... and the Boys IMDB
- IMDb. (2019). Master Harold… and the boys. Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234546/
This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher.
Introduction
'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.
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.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.
National Theatre. (n.d.). 'Master Harold’… and the boys. Retrieved from https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/master-harold-and-the-boys
'Master Harold' ... and the Boys
Tkellnerus. (2020, June 10). Master Harold… and the boys: Matthew Broderick Zakes Mokae [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRIx-IPPICw
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Britannica School covers the core subject areas of English, Maths, Science and History. Interactive lessons, activities, games, stories, worksheets, manipulatives, study guides and research tools.
- West Australian Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
The West Australia Archive Digital Editions provides full text searching of past issues of the West Australian. Each issue is searchable the day after publication.
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