

September 5, 1995
52m
EN
Coky Giedroyc
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
Aristophanes

Frances Barber
Adonia

Patrick Barlow
Cephisophon

Rosalie Crutchley
Aristophanes' mother

April De Angelis
2

Dexter Fletcher
Aristophanes' son

Robert Pugh
Cleon

Suzy Eddie Izzard
Socrates

Richard Strange
Pericles

Ewen Bremner
Cast

Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Cast