UPSTAGE Theatre Company at Hereford Sixth Form College are presenting Alan Bennetts "The History Boys" Directed by actress and director Helen Wingrave. The History Boys is a brilliant play, comedic and refreshing yet permeated with odious class prejudice and unsettling sexual repression. There was a lot of discussion before we started rehearsals proper about the themes of the play and the people and poets who are mentioned in it. The socio-political backdrop of the 1980’s underpins the attitudes and ambitions that run throughout the play. In The History Boys the boys have to initiate the questions, so they have to know what they are talking about..

The play runs July 12th, 13th, 14th at 7.30pm with a 2pm matinee on Wednesday http://www.hereford.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/upstage-production-company-prese-7/ Based on information supplied by Helen Wingrave.