Saturday Play - Master Harold and the Boys

On a wet and windy 1950s afternoon in the St George's Park Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, waiters Sam and Willie are practising their dance steps, unaware that the owner's son, Hally, who grew up with them, is about to change their relationship forever. Athol Fugard's semi-autobiographical play asks who is really the master - and who the boys? Recorded on location in South Africa. Sam ..... Wiseman Sithole Hally ..... Andrew Laubscher Willie ..... Sizwe Msutu Director: Marion Nancarrrow This new production of Fugard's masterpiece, which opened on Broadway in 1982 and subsequently won the Drama Desk, London Critics' Circle and London Evening Standard awards for best play, has been recorded on location in South Africa with a South African cast. Athol Fugard introduces the play himself, from his home in America, the country where it was first performed and talks movingly about its first performance in South Africa, about why he wrote it and about himself as its central character, performing an act which he says he will regret "until his dying day". Recorded in Cape Town, the new cast includes Wiseman Sithole, best known in South Africa for his role as Lucky in the TV drama series "Shooting Stars" and nominated for Best Supporting Actor in "Glass Roots"; Andrew Laubscher in his second role for radio, recorded whilst starring in the comedy "Is It Because I'm Jack?" at the On Broadway Theatre, Cape Town and Sizwe Msutu, well-known in South Africa for his roles as Detective Inspector Hlomla in the SABC1 TV drama series "Interrogation Room" and in the Xhosa film "Goodbye Bafana".