| 1pm Saturday 23 November | Plato Players of the Platonic Academy | FOPA | Tickets |
Eros, the god of loving desire is celebrated at a drinking party. But as our symposium opens, it’s not quite the orgy one might expect of Ancient Athenian lads, for the guests are all rather nerdy and very hungover. They decide to hold back on the drinking for sober eulogies to love. And so it proceeds, with love as desire for the beautiful, with the rejection of base desires for the higher love, the very life force, the philosopher’s stairway to the divine. It’s all very camp and all very sober…at least until the gate crashers arrive.
The Platonic Academy is looking forward to participation in the first Festival of Para-Academia with a reading of Plato’s dialogue The Symposium. Ensure your attendance by pre-purchasing tickets.
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