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Drama Production: "Master Harold"...and the boys
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA - October 12, 2011 - South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities (SCGSAH) drama students are performing "Master Harold"...and the boys by Athol Fugard.
The performances will take place in Sakas Theater on SCGSAH's campus. The play runs November 3 - 5 at 7:30pm with an additional matinee on November 6 at 2:00pm.
Drama faculty member Jayce T. Tromsness is directing, with set design by Erin Kiernan, light design by Tony Penna and costume design by Debi Jolly.
The performance is free to the public, but a reservation is strongly encouraged. Walk-ups are accepted. Reserve up to four seats by calling 864-282-3737.
Written in 1982 by South African playwright Athol Fugard, this part auto-biographical play is a chronicle of Fugard's youth in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, during the height of the anti-apartheid movement. The play centers on three characters and their complex relationship that is redefined in a single afternoon. During a rainy day in his family's St. George's Park Tea Room, 17-year-old Hally spends the afternoon with the tea room's employees, Sam and Willie. The three are a "family" in a sense, as Sam and Willie helped raise Hally due to his absent alcoholic father. Upon hearing of his tyrannical father's return home, Hally's anger pushes him to reevaluate his natural bond with these two men and society's expectation of racial divide. During the play, Sam and Willie's description of a ballroom dance competition, described as a "world without collisions," works as a metaphor for equality; an idea that is sadly slipping out of their grasp.
Student Cast, with hometown information:
The roles of Willie and Hally are double-cast.
SAM
Wonza Johnson Bethune, Kershaw County
WILLIE
Quin Jackson Piedmont, Greenville County
Daniel Davila Pendleton, Anderson County
HALLY
Brock Robinson Greer, Greenville County
Isaac Young Greenwood, Greenwood County
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The South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities is a public residential high school located in Greenville, South Carolina, providing a unique arts and academic education to the state's emerging artists. Young artists, usually in 11th or 12th grade, study creative writing, dance, drama, music, or visual arts during the academic year and rising 9th and 10th grade students attend summer programs in these areas, with summer dance programs open to rising 7th through 12th grade students. For more information, visit http://www.scgsah.org/ or call 864.282.3713.
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