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.
Leo McKern | Socrates |
Alan Bennett | Eryximachus |
John Fortune | Phaedrus |
Barry Justice | Agathon |
Michael Gough | Pausanias |
Robert Gillespie | Alcibiades |
Roddy Maude-Roxby | Aristophanes |
Julian Jebb | Aristomedus |
Darroll Richards | Waiter |