
The Drinking Party (1965)
NR
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Nov 14, 1965 (US)
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00:46
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.
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Cast

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