Reaction to act one of the History Boys

• Open scene leaves foreboding- in wheel chair etc.
• Hector moves with a "flourish"- use of phyiscal comedy
• Boys speak french, play piano etc. with great skill- show's them as clever
• Posner- sticks out as a "boffin" type
• Constant quotations of poets etc. shows deep seated enjoyment of literature
• Large contrast between Irwin and Hector- despite similar views on education- Iwin calling the quotations "gobbets"
• Lots of the humour is drawn from a the characters: very teenage boy-like, bawdy, and even racial elements (yet very unmalicious)- could be described as "banter"
• Hector still likeable despite his molestation of the boys