The Drinking Party

1965

46 minutes

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

Leo McKern

Socrates

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett

Eryximachus

John Fortune

Phaedrus

Barry Justice

Agathon

Michael Gough

Michael Gough

Pausanias

Robert Gillespie

Robert Gillespie

Alcibiades

Roddy Maude-Roxby

Roddy Maude-Roxby

Aristophanes

Julian Jebb

Aristomedus

Crew

Directing

Jonathan Miller

Jonathan Miller

Director

Production

Jonathan Miller

Jonathan Miller

Producer

Writing

Leo Aylen

Writer

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