"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
Coky Giedroyc
Director
April De Angelis
Writer
Tariq Ali
Producer
Nick Bicât
Music