September 15, 2024

The History Boys review – lively revival remains relaxed about sexual harassment

Claudio Ctin2 mins
The History Boys review – lively revival remains relaxed about sexual harassment

Theatre Royal, Bath
Spruced up for its 20th anniversary, Alan Bennett’s beloved play now has 80s musical numbers, but its blase attitude to teachers with wandering hands remains dated

Just over a decade since it was voted the UK’s favourite play, Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is notable for three things: its career-boosting properties (the original 2004 production helped launch James Corden and Russell Tovey), its zingers (history as “just one fucking thing after another”) and a misplaced sentimentality about erudite teachers with wandering hands. What’s a quick squeeze of the balls, the play seems to ask, so long as the boys’ minds are being stimulated?

The 20th anniversary revival, directed by Seán Linnen, could be another star-maker. As the lovesick gay student Posner, one of a class of Sheffield sixth-formers being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exam by teachers with conflicting philosophies, Lewis Cornay has the expressively elfin looks of a young Eddie Redmayne and the talent to match. Archie Christoph-Allen laces the laddish Dakin’s swagger with vulnerability, and Teddy Hinde is boisterous fun as Timms (the Corden role). Elsewhere, Bill Milner, child star of Son of Rambow, is splendidly clenched as the repressed new teacher Irwin.

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