The History Boys " review
Theatre-by-the-Lake, KeswickThere are two established routes into Oxbridge: through the front or round the back. There's a nub of guilt at the core of the History Boys, as if Alan Bennett were slightly embarrassed to be revealing the secret of sneaking into the temple of academe via the tradesman's entrance. In the middle of the play, the drama pauses for a long and structurally inessential scene …