The National Theatre makes a welcome return to Blackpool's Grand Theatre - after almost a decade, with the award-winning play The History Boys from Tuesday 16th October to Saturday 20th October.
In Alan Bennett's hilarious and thought-provoking play, staffroom rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.
Set in the 1980s in the North of England, The History Boys charts the fortunes of an unruly bunch of bright sixth form boys in pursuit of a place at Oxford or Cambridge under the guidance of a maverick English teacher and a shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results, and a history teacher who thinks he's a fool.
Desmond Barrit returns in the role of English teacher Hector - which he previously played on tour and in the Lyttelton in 2005. The cast also includes Elizabeth Bell, Tim Delap, Daniel Fine, Andrew Hawley, Ryan Hawley, Thomas Howes, Danny Kirrane, Alton Letto, Sam Phillips and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett.
With over 260 sold-out performances at the National Theatre, two UK tours, an international tour, sell-out performances on Broadway and a hit movie version, The History Boys has become one of the theatre's most successful and most sought-after productions.
Among the many awards won since it opened to great acclaim at the NT in 2004 are the Tony, Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards for Best New Play and the 2005 South Bank Show Award for Theatre.
This production is directed by the National Theatre's Nicholas Hytner and is redirected for the tour by Paul Miller. -- www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk
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