The Lion in Winter

by James Goldman
directed by Arden Thomas

Tuesday, March 2, 6:30pm

It's Christmas 1183, and King Henry II has gathered his family for the holidays, including his formidable wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, temporarily released from imprisonment for the occasion. Their three sons are all jockeying for the throne, while Henry and Eleanor wage their own battle over which one should inherit it. Alliances form and collapse, old wounds reopen, and nearly everyone has a scheme of their own. Sharp, funny, and full of wonderfully barbed dialogue, James Goldman's The Lion in Winter turns a royal struggle for power into a deliciously complicated family gathering.