THE DRINKING PARTY (1965)
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The Drinking Party
November 14, 1965
English
0h 46m
United States, England
BBC
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love before the Don, through a series of questions, reaches a unifying conclusion.
Cast & Characters
Leo McKern
Socrates
Alan Bennett
Eryximachus
John Fortune
Phaedrus
Barry Justice
Agathon
Michael Gough
Pausanias
Robert Gillespie
Alcibiades
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Aristophanes
Julian Jebb
Aristomedus
Darroll Richards
Waiter