Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing

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.

• Coky GiedroycDirector
• April De AngelisWriter

• Robert GlenisterAristophanes
• Frances BarberAdonia
• Patrick BarlowCephisophon
• Rosalie CrutchleyAristophanes' mother
• Dexter FletcherAristophanes' son
• Robert PughCleon
• Eddie IzzardSocrates
• Richard StrangePericles
• Ewen BremnerCast
• Roger Ashton-GriffithsCast