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Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Comedic
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
Cutler's Grammar School, Sheffield, England, 1980s
Act/Scene
Act 1

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START: MRS LINTOTT Ah, Rudge.
RUDGE Miss.
MRS LINTOTT How are you all getting on with Mr Irwin?
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END: RUDGE He is. Mr Irwin says that if Orwell were alive today he鈥檇 be in the National Front.
MRS LINTOTT Dear me. What fun you must all have.
RUDGE It鈥檚 cutting-edge, miss. It really is.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Alan Bennett, The History Boys, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011, pp. 57-58.

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