Wellesley College UPSTAGE presents:

The Lion in Winter  by James Goldman

Directed by Mara Palma '15

Thursday March, 5 - Sunday March, 8

Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre @ 7pm

FREE for Wellesley Students, $5 General Admissio

For questions or to make a reservations: upstage@wellesley.edu or 781-283-2220

The Lion in Winter by James Goldman dramatizes an imagined conversation between King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine over which of their three sons, Richard, Geoffrey, and John, will inherit the English throne. On a wintry evening in 12th century Chignon, France, the British royal family has gathered under one roof to celebrate the Christmas season by maneuvering and negotiating the terms of kingly succession. A battle of wits and words ensues, blurring the lines between right and might, love and hate, and the personal and the political. Tensions rise as the characters strike deals with, make promises to, and declare war on one another.