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Informationen zum Autor Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic. He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for The Madness of King George , and the film of his screenplay of The Lady in the Van starred Dame Maggie Smith. His work for the stage includes Forty Years On , an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, The Habit of Art and People. His collections of prose are Writing Home , Untold Stories ( PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography), Keeping On Keeping On and House Arrest . His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader, Smut: Two Unseemly Stories and Two Besides . Klappentext "A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." - The Daily Telegraph In The History Boys , Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life. In doing so, he raises-with gentle wit and pitch-perfect command of character-not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today. An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. Winner of six Tony Awards, The History Boys was also made into a movie of the same name in 2006. Vorwort Alan Bennett's beloved, best-known play, elegantly rejacketed in Faber Drama's new series design. Zusammenfassung Alan Bennett's beloved, best-known play, with a beautiful typographic cover. The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. As an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys pursue sex, sport and a place at university, adolescent anarchy and staffroom rivalry provoke insistent questions about history and education. The History Boys premiered at the National Theatre, London, 2004, winning Evening Standard , Critics' Circle, Olivier and South Bank Awards. On Broadway, it received numerous awards, including six Tonys. ...
