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The Drinking Party

11/14/1965

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0hr 46min

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STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Leo McKern
  • Alan Bennett
  • John Fortune
  • Barry Justice
  • Michael Gough

    Directors

  • Jonathan Miller
  • Leo Aylen

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Leo McKern

    Socrates

    John Fortune

    Phaedrus

    Barry Justice

    Agathon

    Michael Gough

    Pausanias

    Robert Gillespie

    Alcibiades

    Roddy Maude-Roxby

    Aristophanes

    Julian Jebb

    Aristomedus

    Darroll Richards

    Waiter