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Title: Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard ISBN: 0-14-048187-7 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: South African litterate beauty
Comment: Words and the imagination of the reader are quintessentials of modern drama. Never since Shakespeare do you find such fine and eloquent use of words and language as in Athol Fugard's "Master Harold and the boys." Speech is powerful and has never more been so than in this play
Rating: 4
Summary: Driving Master Harold?
Comment: Athol Fugard presents a well-written but ultimately frustrating play. The fact that parts of the play are autobiographical, mutes some of the frustration, in that,Fugard is sharing a personal experience in an effort to shed light on a South Africa that is in the process of legalizing its apartheid system.
Sam and Willie are waiters in the St. George's Park Tea Room. Hally, the adolescent son of their white employers, is charged with supervising the two African men. While Hally believes is is keeping an eye on "the boys", Sam continues his long standing practice of attempting to guide and advise both Willie and Hally. Fugard skillful reveals the subtle ways in which Sam tries to deflect Hally's arrogance and focus Hally on his studies.
But the all too familiar scene of Black characters being presented in the role of caretakers for white characters has been done to death. Fugard's treatment and the setting of the play do breath freshness into the situation, and Sam is drawn as too graceful a character to be compared to an Uncle Remus. But reading of two grown African men spending their lives nursemaiding the offspring of their employer/oppressor, as if they were on a Georgia plantation, and going out of their way to "save this child" from his family's dysfunction and his country's inherent racism becomes wearisome.
For those that enjoy movies like Mississippi Burning, The Ghosts of Mississippi, or A Time To Kill, stories in which tales of racial conflict are told with white main characters and Black supporting characters serving as props, this play will likely prove appealling.
For stories that focus on the perspective of the African and not the colonizer, I would suggest Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood, Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God, Ayi Kwei Armah's Two Thousand Seasons, Cheik Hamadou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure, or Haile Gerima's film Sankofa.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best play I've ever read
Comment: and I've read a LOT of plays. This one was nice, short, thought-provoking and great fun to read. The author makes good use of metaphors and symbolism. It is fascinating, angering, and very enjoyable.
It talks about racism and prejudice, pride and freedom, in interesting and enlightening ways. My mother read it after I did (for school) and has since made all of her friends read it. Everyone should read it, or at least see it, to get a better understanding of racism in South Africa, and an appreciation for our freedoms here in America.
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Title: A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller ISBN: 0374521484 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: June, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0345310020 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende ISBN: 0553273914 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1986 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Things Fall Apart : A Novel by Chinua Achebe ISBN: 0385474547 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title:Master Harold and the Boys ASIN: B00000F4YD Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 13 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.98 |
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