A barnstorming performance by Samuel Barnett as a self-loathing gay stand-up mining his life for material illuminates Marcelo Dos Santos’s short but perfectly formed monologue.
The most apparently diffident of Alan Bennett’s original History Boys, Barnett goes big here, parading the character’s neuroses for laughs one moment, crawling with shame or a morbid fear of death the next and always slyly hinting that he’s an unreliable narrator.
