Drinking Eros (or On Wine and Love) is a new musical in three acts based on the erotic dialogues of Plato (the Symposium and the Phaedrus).  As this play was written “in company” not only do we permanently retain all rights and options; we also retain artistic and financial control over the product and all it’s merchandising.

Our target audience comes from three major sectors: experienced straight play and Broadway audiences who want entertainment that is intelligent and compelling, academic audiences who can use the play as part of a lesson plan in philosophy, literature, musicology, culture and history and for a young, hip and educated audience who want something that is cultured, cutting edge and fun.

For the first audience sector, our mission is to retool the Broadway stage for those who wants entertainment that is capable of stimulating thought and conversation about relevant issues as well as eternal truths.  Our goals for the second audience sector is to stimulate education by offering background reading, projects and activities for classrooms and talks by the creators and performers.  To this end, we intend that our interpretation and presentation of materials is both historically meaningful (without being slaves to period style) and academically defensible.  Our goal for all but especially the third audience sector is to offer not just a show but an experience built from the integration of classic and modern forms.  To this end we intend audience and performer interaction in a cabaret environment where food and drink service are available.  Plato’s Symposium takes place at a party.  Our party will not contain itself to the stage.