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

Nov 19, 2019 · 1h 40m
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Drama

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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.

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CAST

Hammed Animashaun
Willie
Anson Boon
Hally
Lucian Msamati
Sam
Directed by Roy Alexander Weise

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Released
Original language
EN
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—
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Production
National Theatre
Country
GB

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