The History Boys

brilliant and simple don't always fit together
neither do dry but moving
relatable yet foreign
or gorgeous and also coldly academic

'the history boys'
broadway's tony winning best play
is all of these and more

set in 1980s england
'history boys' tells the story of eight high school-aged teenagers and the educators entrusted with their future

the play explores the very nature of academia, the exact experience of adolescence and the deeper purpose of learning

and is as beautiful a night in the theatre as any of us could ever hope to have


HECTOR: The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

He puts out his hand, and it seems for a moment as if Posner will take it, or even that Hector may put it on Posner's knee. But the moment passes.

Shall we just have the last verse again and I'll let you go.