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The History Boys Theatre Tickets

Wyndhams Theatre Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0DA

The multi-award-winning play set in an all-boys school in the 1980s returns to the West End with several successful runs in London, on tour, and on Broadway in its wake.

Alan Bennett's play follows an unruly bunch of bright, funny, sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at Oxbridge, a maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher, a headmaster obsessed with results and a history teacher who thinks the head is a fool.

In this recreated production Desmond Barrit plays the eccentric English teacher Hector, the role originally created by Richard Griffiths. 

"The school gives them an education. I give them the wherewithal to resist it. Examine a boy and he is tamed already. Only examine him and you can tax him, empanel him, enlist him, interrogate him and put him in prison. You have only to grade him and you have got him."

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.

In Alan Bennett's stunning play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.