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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.

Intelligent, witty and hilarious. Passes with flying colours

- THE TIMES

Immensely funny … in short, a superb, life-enhancing play

- THE GUARDIAN

Brilliantly funny with lines that we will be quoting for years to come… naughty, impish, endlessly ironic

- FINANCIAL TIMES

This timely revival, directed by Seán Linnen, asks what is the purpose of education? And who is it for?

‘How very pleased I am that The History Boys are still here twenty years on finding a new audience. “Pass it on” is Hector’s message – I hope the playgoers feel the same!’ Alan Bennett