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The Insect Play
7.0(1)19391h 30m
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 increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
- Director
- Stephen Thomas
- Writers
- Josef Čapek,Karel Čapek
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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
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
Sheila Kay
The Larva
Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite
Crew
Directing
- Stephen ThomasDirector
Writing
- Clifford BaxAdaptation
- Josef ČapekWriter
- Karel ČapekWriter
Production
- Stephen ThomasProducer
Sound
- Frederic AustinMusic
Costume & Make-Up
- Hugh StevensonCostume Design
Crew
- Andrée HowardChoreographer