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By DIANA BIRD Rappahannock News Contributing Writer The production by the Rappahannock Players over two weekends of James Goldman’s “The Lion in Winter” was an undertaking that involved dozens in the community. Its success is a corporate one, including the enthusiastic audiences. Like the other memorable dramatic i productions to the Players’ credit, | “The Lion” will evoke certain moj ments in the memory of each viewer for years to come. [ The play required the sustained f and accomplished acting of two print cipal characters, in this case Dinah s Pehrson-Day playing Eleanor of > Aquitaine and Stephen Hostetter • playing her husband, Henry II, King £ of England. Both displayed the virtuosity of professionals. At the first performance, a high point for me was the moment when King Henry threatened to kill his son, Prince Richard, with his broadsword and ; found he couldn’t. Historically, ' Henry is credited with the murder of i the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket, his intimate | friend, whom he admonished knights I of his household to assassinate in ; 1170. , One wonders if Henry’s threatened murder of Richard is supposed to remind us of this other fearful
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