The History Boys
The History Boys at Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
The History Boys
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About the show
The history-making global hit returns!
The Tony™ and Olivier Award-winning hit play The History Boys is back! Written by Alan Bennett and directed by Nicholas Hytner, the landmark National Theatre production returns after 20 years and is ready to make history all over again.
Loved by a generation, The History Boys tracks the course of eight schoolboys at an all-boys Grammar School in Sheffield, as they navigate sex, school politics and their teachers’ intellectual battle of wills.
Subversive, poignant and deeply funny, The History Boys explores sexuality, adolescence and the nature of history, challenging the purpose of education whilst reflecting the changing face of 1980s England.
Don’t miss your chance to see one of the defining plays of the 21st Century.
Opening at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, for 16 weeks only!
Featuring - The History Boys
Eight unruly teenagers burst into adulthood with the best grades their school has ever seen, but their sights are set on something higher: to study at the most famous academic institutions in the world - Oxford and Cambridge. But their teachers can’t agree how best to tutor them. There’s Hector, the maverick English teacher who believes in culture for its own sake; Irwin - the shrewd supply teacher full of soundbites; Felix - the headmaster obsessed with league tables and Mrs Lintott - the History teacher who thinks her colleagues are all fools.
The History Boys follows this bright bunch of boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university, lifting the lid on staffroom rivalries and the anarchy of adolescence.