{"id":1197,"date":"2024-01-12T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thds2.wpcomstaging.com\/?page_id=1197"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:32:20","slug":"may-2016-the-history-boys","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/?page_id=1197","title":{"rendered":"May 2016 – The History Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
    \n
  • Playwright – Alan Bennett
    <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Location – Harrogate Theatre Main Stage
    <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Directors – Sue Rawson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
    \n\n\n\n

    The Boys<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \n
    • Akhtar – Brandon Syres<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Crowther – Mark Nicholls<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Dakin – David McCabe<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Lockwood – Dane Wright<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Posner – Naail Ishaq<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rudge – Will Nimick<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Scripps – Sam Newsome<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Timms – Elliott Matthews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      The Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \n
      • The Head – Stuart Newsome<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Hector – Chris Cowling<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Irwin – Andrew McMinn<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Mrs Lintott – Alissa Reilly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
        \n\n\n\n

        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 \u2018Oxbridge\u2019 material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        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.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Enter Irwin, the final piece of the jigsaw. This funny, sad, thoughtful play is about relationships, fate, the different perceptions of education, and \u2018passing on\u2019 knowledge into the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        The Boys The Staff Eight boys have gained the highest ever A-level results at their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1197\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hds-online.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}