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Play Broaches Issues of Race, Heritage, Love

By Adam Farabee | Mar. 27, 2001

"'Master Harold'... and the boys" is an intense, striking piece of theater brought to life by PlayMakers' strongest production of the year.Athol Fugard has created a brilliant play with a story that examines the hatred and pain that spring from prejudice. Set in the 1950s in South Africa, the play centers on three characters forced to come to terms with South Africa's racial policies under apartheid. Sam and Willie (Tyrone Mitchell Henderson) are waiters in Hally's family tea shop.

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Humor, Violence Come to Town in `Vagina'

By Adam Farabee | Feb. 15, 2001

"'Vagina.' It doesn't matter how many times you say it, it never sounds like a word you want to say." That's Eve Ensler in the prologue to her popular play "The Vagina Monologues," which has become the centerpiece of a national movement to end violence against women.In honor of V-Day 2001, Ensler's Obie Award-winning play will be performed at Madison Square Garden in New York and at more than 200 colleges nationwide, including UNC.

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