Alan Bennett at rehearsals for The History Boys (2004)
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To what extent is education a means to an end, or an end in itself? How far is academic talent innate, and to what extent can scholarly flair be coached? These are some of the questions begged by Alan Bennett’s The History Boys (2004). Although it is set in the 1980s, Bennett reveals in the introduction to the play that it reflects his own painful teenage experiences, significantly in preparing for the Cambridge University entrance process.
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