The Insect Play

1939, drama, music

90 minutes

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose...

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Cast

Wilfrid Grantham

The Lepidopterist / First Snail

Edmund Willard

The Tranp

Pamela Standish

The Chrysalis

Frank Birch

Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

Maire O'Neill

Maire O'Neill

Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

Charles Peters

Robber Beetle/Journalist

Rupert Bruce Lockhart

The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

Sheila Kay

The Larva

Leslie French

Leslie French

Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

Wendy Toye

Wendy Toye

Mrs. Cricket

Wilfred Franks

The Blind Ant Timekeeper

Geoffrey Wincott

The Parasite

Crew

Costume and make-up

Hugh Stevenson

Costume design

Crew

Directing

Stephen Thomas

Director

Production

Stephen Thomas

Producer

Sound

Writing

Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek

Writer

Josef Čapek

Writer

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