The History Boys
From: Tuesday, 6th October 2009
To: Saturday, 10 October 2009
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Synopsis
A comic drama about adolescent schoolboys. A group 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.
Our Review:
7 October 2009
Five years after first declaring their ambitions, the History Boys have finally arrived at Oxford, albeit at the Old Fire Station Theatre rather than the University itself. Alan Bennett's story of eight grammar school boys and their attempts to get into Oxbridge (amongst other things) has in this short time already become something of a modern classic, so much so that at least one class-load of Literature boys and girls were in the audience with their teacher on the opening night.
For those as yet uneducated, the action begins with the headmaster of a northern boys' grammar school recruiting Irwin, a young Oxford-educated supply teacher, to condition the boys for their Oxbridge entrance exams. The boys' existing teachers are deemed inadequate to this task, initiating a clash of educational cultures. Hector, an English teacher and amiable old pederast, espouses the learning of knowledge for life. He encourages the boys to memorize poetry and regards examinations as demeaning. Irw...
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Alan Bennett (Author)
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