Master Harold ... and the boys

by Athol Fugard. A play based on an incident in the author's youth, dealing with the process of growing up in a racially divided society. Also written Master Harold and the boys or Master Harold...and the boys.

Awards

1982 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play 1983 London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Play 1983 London Evening Standard Award for Best Play Nomination in 1982 Tony Award for Best Play

The play was selected as one of the best 100 plays of the 20th Century in the Times survey.

Premiére 1983
First produced in the USA. At Yale Repertory the original cast was Zeljko Ivanek as Hally, Zakes Mokae as Sam, and Danny Glover as Willie. When the production moved to Broadway Lonny Price was Hally. Glover later appeared in the Broadway revival in the role of Sam.

The South African premiére was at the Market Theatre 1983, directed by Athol Fugard, with John Kani, Duarte Sylwain and Makhene Ramolao.

1999
Revived in 1999, directed by Roy Sargeant with Adam Pike, Tshamano Sebe and Vuyisile Pandle, Sanlam Studio. Master Harold & the Boys, Selected as one of the best plays of the 20th century by ** Published by Oxford University Press.

2013
Produced by Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre, in the Fugard Studio Theatre, 4th-30th March 2013. Directed by Kim Kerfoot (Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act) and designed by Julia Anastasopoulos (Champ). Hally played by Alex Middlebrook, Willie by Themba Mchunu, sam by Tshamano Sebe,

1985 film
A television movie produced in 1985, adapted by Athol Fugard, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg with stars, Matthew Broderick, Zakes Mokae, and John Kani.

2010 film
A filmed version of the play was produced in South Africa in 2009, starring Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland) as Hally and Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction, Mission Impossible 1-3) as Sam. The film was directed by Emmy Award-winning director Lonny Price (who played Hally in the original Broadway cast) and produced by Zaheer Goodman-Bhyat, Mike Auret, Nelle Nugent and David Pupkewitz.