National Theatre

The History Boys

Tue 21 November - Wed 29 November

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Winner of the Olivier Award 2005, The South Bank Show Award, Evening Standard Award and Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play.

After a triumphant sell-out success at The Lowry in 2005, followed by an international tour and a Broadway season, Alan Bennett’s multi-award-winning production returns for a specially extended run.

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.

Staffroom rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.

Read the Manchester Evening News review of this production here.

“One of the finest Bennett has ever written, packed with superb one-liners. A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny” The Daily Telegraph

“It is surely the richest play Bennett has ever written. Wonderfully it blends wit and wisdom, with knockout humour and pain” ***** Financial Times

“Superb, life-enhancing…subtle, deep-wrought and immensely funny play about the value and meaning of education” The Guardian

Contains some strong language.

Wed 22 November
Post Show Talk
Free to ticket holders

Audio Described Perofrmance
Sat 25 November matinee
Click here to download audio information about The History Boys.

Touch tour at 12.30pm.
For information about audio description, click here.

Funded by Arts Council England, with support from the Cross-Border Fund of Scottish Arts Council, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council Wales and Welsh Assembly.