Overview
Loosely autobiographical, this searing coming-of-age story is considered by many to be Fugard’s masterpiece. A white teen who has grown up in the affectionate company of the two Black waiters who work in his mother’s tea room in Port Elizabeth learns that his viciously racist, alcoholic father is on his way home from the hospital. An ensuing rage unwittingly triggers his inevitable passage into the culture of hatred fostered by apartheid.