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Getty Images Alan Bennett’s “The History Boys” is going back to London’s West End after a 20-year absence.
Nicholas Hytner returns to the National Theatre production he first staged in 2004, which later went to Broadway and won six Tony Awards there.
Set in 1980s Britain, the comedy follows eight pupils at a Sheffield boys’ grammar school. They deal with adolescent desire, staffroom politics and teachers locked in an intellectual tug-of-war. Along the way the play takes on sexuality, growing up, what history actually is and what schooling is for.
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