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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Call The Lion in Winter a high minded historical drama. Or call it a soap opera full of that genre’s sexual intrigues and misadventures. Either way, the play which opens at the Gay Street Theatre on Sept. 29 for a two-week run brings a great story together with favorite faces for the benefit of a lucky Rappahannock audience.
Everyone who remembers their eighth grade clasp in world history will recognize the characters, but the school lessons skipped the details that give some history an “R” rating.
Henry II, King of England, and Eleanor of Aquitane have been married for 31 years. He’s building an empire; she’s conniving in the tower where Henry imprisoned her after she conspired to put their son, Richard, on the throne.
Richard is Eleanor’s favorite of the couple’s three children. She wants him to be king, the sooner the better. He’ll grow up to be Richard the Lion-Hearted. Henry’s favorite is John, the bad guy of the Robin Hood tales. The king wants John to
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