The History Boys
Description
The Tony and Olivier Award-winning play returns in the landmark National Theatre production by Alan Bennett, directed by Nicholas Hytner, after 20 years. The History Boys follows eight schoolboys at an all-boys grammar school in Sheffield as they prepare for university entrance exams and negotiate the competing demands of education, ambition and adolescence. Along the way, they encounter contrasting approaches to teaching and the intellectual battle of wills among their teachers, while school politics and questions of sexuality shape their final year. Subversive, poignant and deeply funny, the play examines the purpose of education, the nature of history and the changing face of 1980s England. This Theatre Royal Haymarket season brings back a defining play of the 21st century for a strictly limited 16-week London run.