Wonderful performances of the dialogues that capture a lot of the annoyance felt by a wide cast of characters interrogated by Socrates. It all feels more organic and by the seat of his pants, than you might get from the text itself or (even less so) from summaries of the ideas presented. While Socrates is always annoying people, pressing an argument toward a conclusion, clearly tricking and deceiving the wise men he looks down on in the dialogues, it doesn't feel scripted in the way people who maintain these were fictionalized dialogues maintain. ( )