and the Boys earned the Drama Desk Award and Critics Circle Award for best play in 1983, and London’s Evening Standard Award in 1984. Despite the efforts of his native country, the wider world community did not ignore Fugard’s work and “ Master Harold”.
The play was officially banned by the South African government. and the Boys, however, played 344 performances on Broadway and was produced in other major cities including London. Much of his early work was presented to small private audiences to avoid government censorship. Instead, Fugard wrote a play about human relationships that are put to the test by societal and personal forces.īecause Fugard (critically) focused most of his work on the injustices of the apartheid system of South Africa’s government, government officials called many of Fugard’s works subversive and several times attempted to prevent publication and/or production of his plays. If the play were simply a polemic against the policy of apartheid, it would already be outdated now that sweeping change has transformed South Africa. Rather, Fugard has presented a personal experience that extends to universal humanity. But the play itself is not a simple retelling of an incident from his past.
and the Boys is based on the playwright’s early life in South Africa. First produced at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1982, Athol Fugard’s “ Master Harold”.
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