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The Drinking Party

0.0 46 mins 1965
BBC  
Director(s): Jonathan Miller

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.

Casts of The Drinking Party

Leo McKern

as Socrates

Alan Bennett

as Eryximachus

John Fortune

as Phaedrus

Barry Justice

as Agathon

Michael Gough

as Pausanias

Robert Gillespie

as Alcibiades

Roddy Maude-Roxby

as Aristophanes

Julian Jebb

as Aristomedus

Darroll Richards

as Waiter

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