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The Insect Play

0 %|May 29, 1939|Music, Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Andrée Howard
Choreographer
Karel Čapek
Writer
Stephen Thomas
Producer
Clifford Bax
Adaptation
Stephen Thomas
Director
Frederic Austin
Music
Hugh Stevenson
Costume Design
Josef Čapek
Writer

Cast

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Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
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Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
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Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
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Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
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Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
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Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
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Sheila Kay
The Larva
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Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
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Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
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Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
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Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite