The Drinking Party

The Drinking Party

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 for The Drinking Party...

Leo McKern
Socrates
Alan Bennett
Eryximachus
John Fortune
Phaedrus
Michael Gough
Pausanias
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Aristophanes
Julian Jebb
Aristomedus