Overview
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
- 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