Athol Fugard’s semi-autobiographical play is set in St. George’s Park Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1950. On a long, rainy afternoon, the two lonely employees Sam and Willie practice their steps for the finals of the ballroom dancing championship. It lifts their downtrodden spirits out of the mundane. 

Teenage Hally arrives from school to hang out in his parents’ tearoom. These two men have been Hally’s closest friends and unlikely mentors for his whole life. But it is Apartheid era South Africa; when he turns on them, he becomes Master Harold, and they, broken-hearted, are the boys. Produced at the National Theatre in 2019, Roy Alexander Weise directed Lucian Msamati as Sam and Hammed Animashaun as Willie. ‘Master Harold’ received two Drama Desk Awards, a Drama Critics Circle Award and an Outer Critics Award. 

Monica was the principal underwriter for this finely crafted NT production, a light but wrenching dramatization of Apartheid relationships. Monica is writing a memoir about growing up on a farm in South Africa in the Apartheid era 1955 - 1961. 

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