The History Boys

Written By Alan Bennett
Directed By Billy Ray Brewton

March 5, 7 -8, 12, 14-15
Thursday-Saturday Nights at 8pm
Sunday Matinees at 2pm

Performed at the Levite Jewish Community Center

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (senior) boys in a British boarding school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university - generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, 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.

Featuring: Ron Dauphinee, Mark Castle, Ellise Mayor, Jay Smith, Chris Hicks, Trevor Clay, Daniel C. Jackson, Matthew Adams, D. Connor McVey, Wesley Glass, Rush Brunson, Jeff Hawkins and Brian Lindsey

Alan Bennett was born in Leeds in 1934. After studying at Oxford University he collaborated as a writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in Beyond the Fringe in 1960 at the Edinburgh Festival. He then turned to writing full time and produced his first stage play, Forty Years On, in 1968.

His other plays include: Getting On, Habeas Corpus, The Old Country, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, and The History Boys, as well as many television plays such as A Day Out, Sunset Across the Bay, A Woman of No Importance and the series of monologues Talking Heads and Talking Heads II.