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Starring:
Desmond Barrit, Tim Delap, Andrew Hawley
Writer:
Alan Bennett
Now your last chance to see the National Theatre's smash hit production of The History Boys at the Wyndham Theatre. Charting the fortunes of an unruly bunch of bright sixth-form boys in pursuit of a place at Oxford or Cambridge, under the guidance of a maverick English teacher and a shrewd supply teacher.
This hilarious and thought-provoking play explores the anarchy of adolescence and the purpose of education, and has won 30 major awards including Olivier and Tony awards for Best New Play
In Alan Bennett’s play, staffroom rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results, and a history teacher who thinks he’s a fool.
Among the many awards won by The History Boys since it opened at the NT in 2004 are the Tony, Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best New Play, and the 2005 South Bank Show Award for Theatre.
Desmond Barrit reprises his acclaimed performance in the role of Hector.
Press Quotes
"A class act" Mail on Sunday
"The richest play Bennett has ever written. It wonderfully blends wit and wisdom, with knockout humour and pain.***** "
Financial Times
"A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought provoking and funny."
Daily Telegraph
"A superb, life-enhancing play... Subtle, deep-wrought and immensely funny."
Guardian
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