The History Boys

Sligo Drama Circle is making final preparations to stage the popular Alan Bennett play, “The History Boys” in March 2011. The action of the play takes place in Cutlers’ Grammar School, Sheffield, a fictional boys’ grammar school in the north of England. Set in the early 1980s, the play follows a group of history pupils preparing for the Oxbridge entrance examinations under the guidance of three teachers with contrasting styles.

The play runs in the Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo from Wednesday March 23rd to Saturday March 26th at 8pm.

“one of the finest Alan Bennett has ever written ….. intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny.” – Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph

“subtle, deep-wrought and immensely funny play about the value and meaning of education …. a superb, life-enhancing play.” – Michael Billington, The Guardian

“It subversively mixes up drama, comedy, poetry, popular song and ancient hymns, anecdote and aphorism, WH Auden and Gracie Fields in an eclectically English way.” – Michael Billington, The Guardian

“Playwright Alan Bennett has pulled off that rarest of feats, a comedy of ideas both devilishly entertaining and true to the heart.” – Peter Marks, The Washington Post