There are major conflicts between the men that are not revealed until the end of the play. Hally, Sam and Willie are the main characters in the play. The Apartheid affected and influenced Fugal to write the play which addressed this societal issue. As a result, Fugard directed the world premiere of “Master Harold”… and the boys. Fugard was forbidden from staging his plays in South Africa because white and black actors could not be on stage together. It began in 1948 and ended in 1994 resulting in terrible violence, persecution, and suffering. Apartheid was the South African race policy that separated black and white citizens and remains an awful scar on the country’s history. He wrote in his journal and that entry eventually served as the inspiration for “Master Harold”.Īround the 1950s, there was a influential movement taking place. When he was ten, Fugard had an argument with Sam and spit on him. When Fugard was young, he went by “Hally” and was very close to two of his family’s older black servants, Sam and Willie.
He was also an alcoholic, going in and out of hospitals, and he held extremely racist opinions. Meanwhile, Fugard’s father was disabled, which kept him from working. George Tea Room in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. When he was a child, his mother managed the St. Athol Fugard was born in South Africa, which is where almost all of his plays take place. He used his own personal memories to bring the play to life. and the Boys was a well-written play by Athol Fugal.
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