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The Lion In Winter is the latest offering from Court Theatre, directed by one of Chicago’s most established maestros – Ron OJ Parson. Though James Goldman’s script was penned in 1966, its subject matter takes us almost a millenia prior, to Christmas Day, 1183 in King Henry II’s Castle in France.

King Henry II, played with robust fervor and soft tenderness in equal measure by John Hookenager, finds himself surrounded by jackals who thirst for his throne on all sides. The jackals in this case, just so happen to be his immediate family.

The Lion in Winter is the kind of slow emotional bloodsport that many of us may recognize from our own family holidays.

For a play infused with so much intrigue and subterfuge it makes for surprisingly pleasant holiday viewing.

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While most of Chicago’s stages are littered with elves, puppets, knee-high stockings, and Tiny Tims, Court has programmed something riskier. It pays off. This play is as timely as the Ghost of Christmas Past, and I can