"...The tactless but ambitious headmaster of Cutler's Grammar School has big ideas for his latest Oxbridge applicants. In the hopes of gaining scholarships for the eight history boys, he enlists new supply teacher Irwin to teach them some style. Hector, their enigmatic General Studies teacher, is looking to prepare the boys for something more than just exams, but Irwin's arrival soon causes both the boys and Hector to start questioning their attitude to education...

...CUADC brings Alan Bennett's multi-award winning comic masterpiece to the Cambridge University stage for the first time. Performed by people on the other side of the Oxbridge application game, The History Boys prompts us to question whether it was worth it after all..." Read more & book tickets at the ADC Theatre website

Post-Show Discussion 

There will be a post-show discussion after the performance on Thu 17 October