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START: I’ve got this idea of buying a va...

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The History Boys

Alan Bennett

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 2
Time & Place
Cutler's Grammar School, Sheffield, England, 1980s
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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START: I鈥檝e got this idea of buying a van, filling it with books and taking it round country markets 鈥� Shropshire, Herefordshire. 鈥楾he open road, the dusty highway.

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END: That鈥檚 what the tosh is for. Brief Encounter, Gracie Fields, it鈥檚 an antidote. Sheer calculated silliness.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Alan Bennett, The History Boys, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011, p.115.

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