The Drinking Party

Het verhaal

Samenvatting in het Engels

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

L Leo McKernSocrates A Alan BennettEryximachus J John FortunePhaedrus B Barry JusticeAgathon M Michael GoughPausanias R Robert GillespieAlcibiades R Roddy Maude-RoxbyAristophanes J Julian JebbAristomedus D Darroll RichardsWaiter