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The Insect Play

0.0 90 mins Music   Drama   1939
BBC  
Director(s): Stephen Thomas

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.

Casts of The Insect Play

Wilfrid Grantham

as The Lepidopterist / First Snail

Edmund Willard

as The Tranp

Pamela Standish

as The Chrysalis

Frank Birch

as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

Maire O'Neill

as Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

Charles Peters

as Robber Beetle/Journalist

Rupert Bruce Lockhart

as The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

Sheila Kay

as The Larva

Leslie French

as Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

Wendy Toye

as Mrs. Cricket

Wilfred Franks

as The Blind Ant Timekeeper

Geoffrey Wincott

as The Parasite

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