- Playwright – Alan Bennett
- Location – Harrogate Theatre Main Stage
- Directors – Sue Rawson
The Boys
- Akhtar – Brandon Syres
- Crowther – Mark Nicholls
- Dakin – David McCabe
- Lockwood – Dane Wright
- Posner – Naail Ishaq
- Rudge – Will Nimick
- Scripps – Sam Newsome
- Timms – Elliott Matthews
The Staff
- The Head – Stuart Newsome
- Hector – Chris Cowling
- Irwin – Andrew McMinn
- Mrs Lintott – Alissa Reilly
Eight boys have gained the highest ever A-level results at their school and now aspire to be the first from Cutler Boys Grammar School, to be considered ‘Oxbridge’ material.
Helping them fulfil this goal are two of their regular teachers, Mrs. Lintott, the feminist no-nonsense History teacher, and Hector, the General Studies teacher who runs his seemingly unstructured classes more like theatrical productions.
The Headmaster, wishing to ensure his league table place improves, by getting the boys into Oxford or Cambridge, believes they require extra coaching to give them an edge.
Enter Irwin, the final piece of the jigsaw. This funny, sad, thoughtful play is about relationships, fate, the different perceptions of education, and ‘passing on’ knowledge into the future.