The history boys
The maverick sixth-form master, Hector, has a sparkling rapport with the boys, and his classes are eccentric, stimulating, eclectic, creative, poetic.
Helen Parry
The past is important
THE HISTORY BOYS By Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett's new play (at the Lyttleton Theatre) is about - to use Tony Blair's famous phrase - education, education, education. It is set in a northern grammar school in the 1980s. The headmaster (with a geography degree from Hull) is determined that his brightest boys should win places at Oxford or Cambridge.
