The upcoming show performance of "The Ashes of Aquitaine" is looking for actors. Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, the estranged wife of King Henry II of England, has been urgently summoned to Henry's summer palace in Chinon, France. Henry is dying, but he desperately wants to maintain peace within his kingdom and pleads with Eleanor to intermediate with Richard, admittedly her favorite offspring. But Eleanor detests Henry, not only for her imprisonment but also for his years of infidelity and neglect. Yet Eleanor’s worst enemy is her own hatred of Henry and the memories of a tragic and wasted life as queen.
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