“The History Boys” May 9, 2008

Theatre Off Broadway
 
Take it, feel it and pass it on.
The History Boys
by Alan Bennett
directed by Sam Woods
BEST PLAY
TONY / Olivier Award / Drama Desk / Evening Standard / London Critic’s Circle
 What’s On Stage Award / South Bank Award / Outer Critic’s Circle Award
 
“Nothing could diminish the incendiary achievement of this subtle, deep-wrought and immensely funny play about the value and meaning of education … in short, a superb, life-enhancing play.”
“Brilliantly funny .. The History Boys is moving, disquieting :
one follows it with a heart brimfull …Bennett’s finest work in decades.”
 
Previews May 8*, 2008
Opens May 9* thru June 28, 2008 Fridays & Saturdays
Also on Thursday May 15* and June 5* and June 19*, 2008
7:30 pm 303 777 3292   www.theatregroup.org
 $24 (Groups of 10+ - Student – Senior Citizens – Military)
*discounts available on-line for these performances – adult situation and language.
Theatre Off Broadway - 1124 Santa Fe - Denver
An unruly bunch of bright, funny senior boys in a British boarding 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 by a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim, of their schooling. 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 question about the nature of history and how it is taught but also questions about the purpose of education today.
 
 Featuring
Stephen Maestas, Gwen Harris, David Russell, Roger Winn, Rob Riney, Sean Mellott
Taylor Rascher, Cipriano Ortega, Noah Jordan, Cameron Varner, Vinnie Shelley
 
 
Theatre Off Broadway “The History Boys”
Previews on Thur., May 8, Opens Fri. May 9 thru June 28
Thur (May 15; June 5 & 19), Fri.\Sat. and Monday, May 19
All performances 7:30 p.m.  
$24;  $17 Student, senior, groups
2 for $24 *Thursday & Monday performances.
Theatre Off Broadway - 1124 Santa Fe - Denver
303 777 3292   www.theatregroup.org
 

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