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Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
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  • Female: 0
  • Male: 2
Style
Dramatic
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
St. George Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, 1950
Act/Scene
Act One

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SAM: That’s the way it is, Hally.

HALLY: It doesn’t have to be that way. There is something called progress, you know. We don’t exactly burn people at the stake any more.

SAM: Like Joan of Arc.

[... … …]

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HALLY: It’s the likes of you that kept the Inquisition in business. It’s called bigotry. Anyway, that’s my man of magnitude. Charles Darwin! Who’s yours?

SAM: (without hesitation) Abraham Lincoln.

HALLY: I might have guessed as much. Don’t get sentimental, Sam. You’ve never been a slave, you know. And anyway we freed your ancestors here in South Africa long before the Americans.

Athol Fugard, “MASTER HAROLD” … and the boys, Vintage Books, 2009, pp.15-20.

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