The History Boys

After the noted production of DOG SEES GOD, Apprentice Players is back to present Alan Bennett's award winning play, THE HISTORY BOYS.

Insightful, tragic, and inspiring, THE HISTORY BOYS explores the conflict between substance and presentation.

Apprentice Players presents Alan Bennett's 2005 Tony and Olivier Award Winner, THE HISTORY BOYS.

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (senior) boys in a British boarding school are in pursuit of friendship, sport, and a place at a good university. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and by a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling.

In THE HISTORY BOYS, Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life. In doing so, he raises not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today.