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Awards Galore
the six Tony awards it won earlier this year on Broadway, equalling a 50-year-old New York record, Alan Bennett’s hit play The History Boys finally arrives in UK cinemas on October 13.
O riginally performed at the National Theatre 7, where it
also scooped all the year’s main prizes, the film version for 20th Century Fox, also
directed by Nicholas Hytner, re-unites the premiere cast including Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Stephen Campbell Moore, Samuel Barnett, Dominic Cooper and Clive Merrison.
Set in the 1980s in the north of England, Bennett’s comedy pits an inspirational but highly unconven- tional teacher against a headmaster who is obsessed with the test results and the young supply teacher brought in to groom the Varsity- inclined boys for greatness.
According to DP Andrew Dunn BSC, who also shot another Bennett stage success, The Madness Of King George, for Hytner: “While you could see Madness somehow bursting a lit- tle at the seams on stage to get out and become a film, with The History Boys, there wasn’t immediately that same feeling because of the wordi- ness and the main settings: just a couple of classrooms and the head- master’s study. ■
The History Boys was originated on 16mm Eterna 500T 8673
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Photos from top l-r: Richard Griffiths and Stephen Campbell Moore; The History Boys line-up; Director Nick Hytner with writer Alan Bennett; the boys with Alan Bennett; Richard Griffiths with the best actor Tony Award presented by Julia Roberts at the Radio City Music Hall, New York; The History Boys DP Andrew Dunn BSC
MAKING HISTORY
Still aglow from