The Drinking Party

Overview

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

Leo McKern

Socrates

Alan Bennett

Eryximachus

John Fortune

Phaedrus

N/A

Barry Justice

Agathon

Michael Gough

Pausanias

Robert Gillespie

Alcibiades

Roddy Maude-Roxby

Aristophanes

N/A

Julian Jebb

Aristomedus

N/A

Darroll Richards

Waiter