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
Gladiator
Y Tu Mamá También
Raising Arizona
Pretty Woman
The Idiots
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Bowling for Columbine
Mala Noche
Goodbye to Language
Thus Spoke Bellavista