The History Boys (Faber Drama)

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Description

“A play of depth in addition to dazzle, intensely moving in addition to thought-provoking and funny.” The Day-to-day Telegraph

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys’ school are, as such boys will likely be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, most often in that order. In all their efforts, they’re helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in once in a while undefined ways, and a young history teacher who questions the methods, in addition to the aim, in their schooling. In The History Boys, Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy’s life. In doing so, he raises–with gentle wit and pitch-perfect command of character–not only universal questions concerning the nature of history and how it’s taught but also questions concerning the purpose of education nowadays.


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