The return of Shaun McKenna’s gripping historical drama about the young Eleanor of Aquitaine - wife and mother to Kings, crusader, prisoner and formidable political operator.

An ill-fated crusade to the Holy Land has ended in disaster for Eleanor and her husband, King Louis of France. The journey home is to prove no less hazardous when a storm leaves Eleanor and a small band of survivors shipwrecked behind enemy lines.

Eleanor ….. Bettrys Jones
Louis ….. Joel MacCormack
Petronilla ….. Ruth Everett
Bakr Al Omar ….. Ammar Haj Ahmad
Lady Alyson ….. Grace Cooper Milton
Father Anselm ….. Jonathan Forbes
Pope Eugenius ….. Roger Ringrose

Sound design by Caleb Knightley
Directed by Gemma Jenkins

Though Eleanor of Aquitaine lived nine hundred years ago, she is very modern woman. At 16 she inherits the richest province in France and plans to run it her own way, as her grandfather promised she could. The men around her have other ideas – a young woman with so much power is far too great a threat. Intelligent, tough, imaginative and witty, Eleanor first scandalises then subtly reshapes the world she inhabits. This gains her a host of admirers as well as, inevitably, powerful enemies determined to bring her down. Somehow she stays one step ahead of them all. It’s not that Eleanor think likes a man – it’s that the men have no idea how to contain someone with power who thinks like a woman. Show less