Review: Apartheid-era 'Master Harold' … and the Boys feels fresh, relevant
Just as Bertolt Brecht’s reputation as an epic dramatist emerged relatively unscathed from under the rubble of the Berlin Wall, so the best of Athol Fugard’s humane, beautifully constructed dramas have retained their wallop long after the apartheid system that inspired them has been dumped in the ashcan of history.
Take “Master Harold” … and the Boys, his largely autobiographical 1982 masterpiece, which Toronto’s Obsidian Theatre has just brought to the Segal
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