"The History Boys The History Boys is a play by British playwright Alan Bennett. The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London on 18 May 2004. Its Broadway debut was on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre where 185 performances were staged before it closed on 1 October 2006. The play won multiple awards, including the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play. The play opens in Cutlers' Grammar School, Sheffield, a fictional boys' grammar school in the north of England. Set in the early 1980s, the play"
"future as the play closes is poignantly bleak. A made-for-television film version of ""Quartermaine's Terms"" was broadcast in 1987. There was also a BBC Radio 3 production on 26 May 1991 (Producer G. House). The play was presented on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 17 June 2006. Quartermaine's Terms Quartermaine's Terms is a play by Simon Gray which won The Cheltenham Prize in 1982. The play takes place over a period of two years in the 1960s in the staffroom at a Cambridge school for teaching English to foreigners. It deals with the interrelationship between seven teachers at the school,"
"Enjoy (play) Enjoy is a comedy play written in 1980 by Alan Bennett. An idiosyncratic view of working-class family life in Leeds, a city in the north of England, it was one of the rare theatrical flops in Bennett's career. An elderly couple living in one of the last back-to-back houses in Leeds encounter a series of jolting surprises, not least when their son returns, as a council official in drag, and reveals that the council intends to demolish their house brick by brick, and reassemble it in the local museum, complete with its occupants. Following a national tour, directed"
"Alan Bennett Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author. He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University, where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue ""Beyond the Fringe"" at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full-time, his first stage play ""Forty Years On"" being produced in 1968. His"
"emerged as a vocal campaigner against public library cuts. Plans to shut local libraries were ""wrong and very short-sighted"", Bennett said, adding: ""We're impoverishing young people."" Alan Bennett Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author. He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University, where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue ""Beyond the Fringe"" at the 1960 Edinburgh"
"Film – Limited Release. Griffiths and de la Tour received BAFTA nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. The History Boys (film) The History Boys is a 2006 British comedy-drama film adapted by Alan Bennett from his play of the same name, which won the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play and the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play. It was directed by Nicholas Hytner, who directed the original production at the Royal National Theatre in London, and features the original cast of the play. The school scenes were filmed in Watford in two schools, Watford Grammar"
"Bath and Chichester Festival Theatre was directed by Jeremy Herrin, transferring to Trafalgar Studios in 2014. The play won the Society of West End Theatre Awards Play of the Year title for 1982. ""Another Country"" is loosely based on the life of the spy Guy Burgess, renamed ""Guy Bennett"" in the play, and examines the effect his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism has on his life, and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public school he attends. The setting is a 1930s public school where pupils Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd become friends because they are both outsiders. Bennett"
"Forty Years On (play) Forty Years On is a 1968 play by Alan Bennett. It was his first West End play. The play is set in a British public school called Albion House (""Albion"" is an ancient word for Britain), which is putting on an end of term play in front of the parents, i.e. the audience. The play within the play is about the changes that had happened to the country following the end of the Great War in 1918 and the loss of innocence and a generation of young men. In a 1999 study of Bennett's work, Peter"
"Quartermaine's Terms Quartermaine's Terms is a play by Simon Gray which won The Cheltenham Prize in 1982. The play takes place over a period of two years in the 1960s in the staffroom at a Cambridge school for teaching English to foreigners. It deals with the interrelationship between seven teachers at the school, in particular that between St John Quartermaine and the others. The dominant theme is loneliness, and during the course of the play all of the characters experience the trauma of being or feeling alone. Mark’s wife leaves him; Derek, from Hull, finds Cambridge initially unwelcoming; Eddie is"
"the play's closing scene, Bennett and Judd recognise that the school's illusory hold upon them has been broken and that the British class system relies strongly on outward appearances. They begin to contemplate life anew, inspired by the example of Devenish's rebellious uncle, Vaughan Cunningham (who, in a subplot, visits the school). Bennett picks up Judd's copy of ""Das Kapital"", and muses, ‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all this was true?’ The original 1981 Greenwich Theatre production featured Rupert Everett as Guy. Upon transferring to the Queen's Theatre in the West End in March 1982, the production initially also featured"
"Common Room, Refectory, Medical Centre, Book Shop, Gymnasium and Swimming Pool. This is in addition to classrooms (subjects taught in this building are Art and Design, Mathematics, Economics, Classical Civilisation, Computing, Greek, History, Latin, Religion and Philosophy) and administrative offices. The MGS Theatre has recently undergone extensive rebuilding, to provide a modern and comfortable auditorium, together with studios for rehearsals and drama teaching. The Drama Centre Campaign is chaired by Sir Nicholas Hytner (Director of the National Theatre and a former pupil) who brought Alan Bennett and the actors from ""The History Boys"" to launch the campaign in 2006. The"
"and Halifax, West Yorkshire are used to create the broader landscape of Sheffield in which the story is set. In a boys' grammar school in Sheffield in 1983, students Crowther, Posner, Dakin, Timms, Akthar, Lockwood, Scripps, and Rudge have recently obtained the school's highest ever A-level scores and are hoping to enter Oxford or Cambridge, taking a seventh-term entrance exam in History. The General Studies teacher, known by staff and boys alike by his nickname ""Hector"" (Richard Griffiths), is much beloved, and works alongside their deputy head and regular History teacher, Mrs. Lintott (Frances de la Tour). The Headmaster, known"
"in 2012, ""Scrooge"" in 2013, ""Joseph"" in 2014, ""Little Shop Of Horrors"" in December 2015 and ""We Will Rock You"" will be performed this December. Some plays have also been staged, including ""The Yarn"", ""Strangers"", ""The Children's Crusade"" from the National Youth Theatre, and a modern version of Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales."" Tiverton High School Tiverton High School is a state secondary school located in the town of Tiverton, Devon, England. The school used to be a specialist visual arts college. The school is situated on the outskirts of Tiverton, and there is a close working relationship with the nearby"
"Little Shop of Horrors, Singin' in the Rain, Fame!, Hairspray, Grease, The Sound of Music and, in 2017, Les Misérables. The show currently in rehearsal for February 2018 is West Side Story. There are also secondary productions including A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016) which was also performed at the RSC's Other Place in Stratford-on-Avon. The school was involved in the filming of Shane Meadows' film """"This Is England"""" in 2005. The school is the location for the opening/fight sequence in the film. The headteacher, appointed in 2008, is Jonathan Crofts, a former teacher at the school, who was Deputy Headteacher"
"National Theatre Studio and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Its first full production ran at Shakespeare's Globe from 24 August to 11 October 2013. The printed play includes a dedication to female education activist and Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai. The Girton Girls The Boys The Staff Others In performance, with the exception of Elizabeth Welsh and Tess, all parts can be doubled. The play can be staged with approximately twelve actors. Prologue. It is 1896. Dr Maudlsey begins with a warning to the audience that education for women is a dangerous idea. He argues that women's lives should be"
"In 2007, the fiftieth anniversary of the play's first production, the Theatre Archive Project, a collaboration among the British Library, the University of Sheffield, and the British AHRC, began interviewing surviving members of the cast, as well as the author of the accompanying one-acter ""The Rehearsal"". In April 2007, as part of a three-day conference , held at the University of Leeds, in conjunction with which Pinter was awarded his seventeenth Honorary degree, Henry Woolf reprised his role as Mr. Kidd. On 26 May 2007 students at the University of Bristol, directed by Simon Reade, mounted a production in the"
"2009 whilst David Tennant was undergoing surgery for a spinal injury. In 2014, Bennett was appointed the Patron of Chapel Lane Theatre Company based in Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK. Edward Bennett (actor) Edward Bennett (born 9 April 1979) is an English actor. Bennett was born in Honeybourne, Worcestershire. He attended Chipping Campden School in Gloucestershire, and graduated from Cardiff University with a BSc in history and politics. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). In 2008, Bennett appeared as Laertes in ""Hamlet"", Demetrius in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", and Berowne in ""Love's Labour's Lost"". He reprised the first two roles"
"in Penrith. Elinor Moran (born 1980) from Stoke-on-Trent, England, was a student at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester before moving to London to study voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is also a member of the touring troupe Mid Wales Opera and a singing coach. This is her first recording. Hannah Pedley was born in Leeds and teaches singing at the Royal Ballet School. Jonathan Prentice from Bournemouth has performed regularly as a principal with the Candlelight Opera Company in productions such as ""Don Giovanni"" and ""Rigoletto"". Prentice appears on the recording ""A Christmas Choral"
"in the area, it is one of the highest achieving in terms of GCSE and A-level results. The percentage of students gaining five or more A* to C, including English and Mathematics was almost 64% in 2011, an 8% increase on the previous year. Five or more A* to C grades were gained by 82% of students and almost 25% of students gained three A* or A grades. In 2009, a sixth form teacher in the school, Keith Kinsella, was involved in a protest regarding the play England People Very Nice at London's National Theatre. He and local playwright Hussain"
"of the way through the second act. Both Hector and Mrs Lintott have the audience on their side whereas he – who is teaching and getting results, which, in the ordinary way, parents would approve of – is not thought to be sympathetic until he reveals himself as quite vulnerable. That came as a surprise to me when I saw it rehearsed. In a sense, it takes the actors to show you what you've written"". Reviewing the play for ""The Guardian"" in May 2004, Michael Billington wrote: ""Stephen Campbell Moore makes Irwin both meretricious in his methods, yet effective in"
"In 1995 he wrote the libretto for Stephen McNeff's opera ""Paradise of Fools"", which premiered at the Unicorn Theatre. His first full-length play ""Of Rats and Men"", set in a psychology lab, was staged at the Canal Cafe Theatre in 1996 and went on to the Edinburgh Festival. He adapted it for BBC Radio, starring Anton Lesser, and it was nominated for a Sony Award. Richard Bean Richard Bean (born Richard Anthony Bean in East Hull, 11 June 1956) is an English playwright. Bean was educated at Hull Grammar School, and then studied Social Psychology at Loughborough University, graduating with"
"in England. Previous shows include The Ladies' Cage (2007), which focuses on Anna Parnell and the women of the Ladies Land League. It is set in the 1890s in the English and Irish land wars of the era. The production uses research material by Professor Margaret Ward, and her previously unpublished research on Anna Parnell. In 2007, the company was funded by the Duke of Cornwall Benevolent Fund to produce a series of ""Positive Behavior"" sessions at Ludgvan Community Primary School Suffragettes: 100 Years (2009) was a joint project with Naomi Paxton. There were readings of plays by members of"
"Class Enemy (play) Class Enemy is a 1978 play by the British playwright Nigel Williams which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre. Class Enemy was written in 1978 as a social commentary on the apathy and anarchy in inner city British schools, is adapted to the new European reality at the beginning of the 21st century. The set is a bleak classroom with broken tables and chairs, dirty blackboard and lit with sterile fluorescent lamps. The play starts with six students waiting for a teacher and, like Samuel Beckett’s Vladimir and Estragon, they seem to wait in vain. What the"
"young people in London and Manchester. ""Punk Rock"" is frequently used in Drama education in sixth form in England, as well as a few other places around the world. There have been multiple student productions of the play, some of which the play's author, Simon Stephens, has attended. Punk Rock (play) Punk Rock is a play by the British playwright Simon Stephens which premiered at the Royal Exchange in 2009 and transferred to the Lyric Hammersmith directed by Sarah Frankcom. The play concerns a group of private school sixth formers during their A Level mocks exams. In the library of"
"The Ruling Class (play) The Ruling Class is a 1968 British play by Peter Barnes. The black comedy centres on Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney, the 14th Earl of Gurney and the attempts to cure him of insanity. After a speech at a dinner proposing a toast to England, the 13th Earl of Gurney is got ready for bed by his butler Tucker. This includes setting up a silken noose above his four-poster, which the Earl uses for a bizarre autoerotic asphyxiation ritual. He survives this the first time, but it goes wrong the second time he tries it and"
"a school classroom with a teacher who attempts to convince him of the genuineness of his father's illness. Because of the difficulties in staging a play that requires a full orchestra in addition to the cast of actors, the play is rarely performed. Its 1977 premiere was staged at the Royal Festival Hall in London as part of Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee. That performance featured Ian McKellen (Alexander), John Wood (Ivanov) and Patrick Stewart (Doctor), as well as the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Previn. The play was then commercially recorded for RCA Red Seal (RCA ABL1-2855), with Previn conducting"
"of the world-renowned Atlantic Theatre Festival in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2006–07. Bennett first started acting at eleven, playing a Roman citizen in a school production of Shaw's Antony and Cleopatra. He graduated from the University of Wales with a degree in theatre, and taught for a year and a half before beginning acting full-time. He had fifteen years of stage experience in Britain prior to moving to Canada. He attended Tettenhall College in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Nigel Bennett Nigel Bennett (born 19 November 1949) is an Anglo-Canadian actor/director/writer who has been based in Canada since 1986. He is best"
"a deck boy and his circumnavigation of the globe and the ""Bath Detective"" thriller trilogy. In 2006, he gave a ""Platform"" talk on history writing and teaching at the National Theatre as a prelude to Alan Bennett's play ""The History Boys"" and a new stage play set in the London of 1912. His study of the British monarchy and its future was published in spring 2014 and his book on Royal Ceremony and Regalia is to be published early 2015. In 2011 he edited an official single-volume abridgment of Winston Churchill's four-volume ""A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"". He is"
"plays as a collective have included ""Francesca, Mathilda and Tea"", ""The Mysterious Shorts"", ""Clean Irene and Dirty Maxine"", ""Breakfast"" and ""Gertrude and Alice"". ""Gertrude and Alice"" was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2018 Governor General's Awards. Anna Chatterton Anna Chatterton is a Canadian playwright, who was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2017 Governor General's Awards for her play ""Within the Glass"". She was educated in theatre at Concordia University, and in creative writing at the University of Guelph, before becoming playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre"
"Room"" by A.R. Gurney, ""The Cherry Orchard"" by Anton Chekhov, ""The Doorway"" by Phyllis Tickle, ""The Trial of Jesus"" by John Masefield, and ""Rumors"" by Neil Simon. Recent Shakespeare performances include, ""Merchant of Venice"""", Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream"", and ""Julius Caesar""""."" Members of the Company have studied in London, Chicago, New York and Boston, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Royal Shakespeare Company, London's National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, Shakespeare & Company and the Central School of Speech and Drama. The Linklater method has been emphasized in their voice training. Built by Nelson Barden & Associates of"
"family lives in London and Somerset. Richard Lintern Richard Charles Lintern (born 8 October 1962 in Taunton, Somerset) is an English stage, voice and screen actor. Lintern studied English Literature at Durham University as a member of Van Mildert College, graduating with a degree in 1984. He subsequently won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Lintern has an extensive stage career, spending most professional time in the West End and the Royal National Theatre. He has appeared across the UK, including roles at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court Theatre <""The Merchant"
"of which, ""Internet Cafe"" (2002) has also been turned into a movie screenplay. ""Be Worth It"" (2003) was acclaimed by both the Royal Court and the Soho Theatre in London, but perhaps his most successful play is ""Ledgers"" (2003), a one-act comedy taking as its theme the subject of depression and suicide, which has been performed in both the UK and US. Gardner's Micro Fiction has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, and has featured on the curriculum in a number of US high schools, as well as appearing on the Contemporary English syllabus at the University of"
"History. Four Courts Press Ltd, 30 Sept. 2013. Of note on the Dublin education scene is Alan Costello the Geography teacher at St Benildus. Despite (allegedly) a penchant for hand-outs and gazing out the window, scoring 4 stars he's generally regarded as being ""sound"" and a ""lege"", despite some jackeen scrotes dissenting from the popular opinion. Alan Costello of Ruby Consulting is a pharmaceutical chemist, another Alan Costello was winner of the 1995 C.I.E. Children's Art Award for a piece 'Train made of toilet roll tubes, tissue paper, crayons, and glitter', (age 4-5 category), The launch of ’1916: Tales from"