National Theatre Master Harold and the boys (2019)

St Georges Park Tea Room Port Elizabeth 1950 On a long rainy afternoon employees Sam and Willie practise their steps for the finals of the ballroom dancing championship Hally arrives from school to hide out in his parents tea room These two men have been unlikely best friends to Hally his whole life But it is apartheid era South Africa hes Master Harold and they are the boys Tony Awardwinning playwright Athol Fugards semiautobiographical and blistering masterwork explores the nature of friendship and the ways people are capable of hurting even those they love