
05/09/1995
Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political satire and why his theatrical innovations are still staples of the contemporary theatre.

Robert Glenister
as Aristophanes

Frances Barber
as Adonia

Patrick Barlow
as Cephisophon

Rosalie Crutchley
as Aristophanes' mother

Dexter Fletcher
as Aristophanes' son

Robert Pugh
as Cleon

Eddie Izzard
as Socrates

Richard Strange
as Pericles

Ewen Bremner
as

Roger Ashton-Griffiths
as
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