Meet the Cast
Hally
Burdened BoyHally is a "seventeen-year-old white boy" (193). In some ways he's a typical high school kid; he draws funny pictures of his teachers, complains about his homework, and gets into philos...
Sam
Sam Semela is a "black man in his mid-forties" (20) working as a waiter in the St. George's Park Tea Room. Fugard paints him as an intelligent, refined, and compassionate man who's patient with Hal...
Willie
While Sam and Hally are more three-dimensional characters, Willie Malopo is more in the background. Fugard refers to him as a "mildly comic figure," (35) about the same age as Sam. He's been workin...