The History Boys The History Boys The History Boys is a play by British playwright Alan Bennett. The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London on 18 May 2004. Its Broadway debut was on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre where 185 performances were staged before it closed on 1 October 2006. The play won multiple awards, including the 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play. The play opens in Cutlers' Grammar School, Sheffield, a fictional boys' grammar school in the north of England. Set in the early 1980s, the play
The America Play exploring their own. This is done in a way to interact with the past and the consequential suffering from a distance. Parks play also demonstrates how the process of history creates a dominant class of those who are known, and a section for those who belong in history. Suzan-Lori Parks, ""The America Play" (1994)", in Annemarie Bean (ed.), "A Sourcebook of African-American Performance: Plays, People Movements", Routledge, 1999, pp. 307–348 The America Play The America Play is a two-act play that was written by Suzan-Lori Parks in 1993. The play follows an African-American gravedigger who loves and resembles Abraham Lincoln,