Wednesday 8th February 2023; 7.30pm
Thursday 9th February 2023; 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Friday 10th February 2023; 2.30pm & 7.30pm
A heartbreak spanning centuries. What is love? Do soulmates really exist? Join Alcibiades in crashing one of the most famous dinner parties you’ll ever come across as Plato redefines what it means to be beautiful.
Age guidance: 15+
Running time: approx 2 hoursEvening performances on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th will include a pre-show talk in the theatre (included in the ticket).Thursday 9th, 6.45-7.15pmDr Frisbee Scheffield (Cambridge) ‘Platonic love: Lessons from the Symposium’Friday 10th, 6.45-7.15pmProfessor Edith Hall (Durham) ‘What has Plato’s Symposium got to do with theatre?Pre-show talks will be filmed – by buying a ticket you give permission to be filmed for this purpose.
Public workshops (limited capacities due to nature of activity)Wednesday 8th, 4-5.30pm – Venue: Room Archaeology G6 LT, Gordon Square (31-34) & (14) Taviton StDr Michael Loy (Cambridge) ‘Plato and the Archaeology of the Symposium’. BOOK HEREThursday 9th, 4-5.30pm – Venue: Bloomsbury Studio, 15 Gordon St, WC1H OAHDr Helen Eastman (Theatre Director) ‘Chorus and Chorality in Practice’. BOOK HEREFriday 10th, 4-5.30pm – Venue: Room Archaeology G6 LT, Gordon Square (31-34) & (14) Taviton StDr Caterina Pellò (Nottingham) ‘Teacher, Priestess, and Intellectual: A Woman Philosopher in Plato’s Symposium’.BOOK HERE
To learn more about the annual UCL Greek and Latin plays (which began in 1987) please visit HERE
