The Drinking Party (1965)
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
Michael Gough
Pausanias
Robert Gillespie
Alcibiades
Roddy Maude-Roxby
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