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The Lion in Winter

By:
James Goldman
Composer:
Steven Edis
Management:
Theatre Royal Haymarket Company
Cast:
Robert Lindsay, Joanna Lumley, Tom Bateman, Sonya Cassidy, Joseph Drake, Rory Fleck-Byrne, James Norton
Director:
Trevor Nunn
Design:
Stephen Brimson Lewis (also costumes)
Sound:
Paul Groothuis

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As a piece of history about medieval politics and statecraft, James Holdman's 1966 Broadway play about a fictional Christmas in the warring court of Henry II at Chinon castle is preposterous and absurd hokum. As a family drama, this story of Henry's three sons, the succession and the plotting of his magnetically witty but ultimately treacherous Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is fun but ultimately thin fare...

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