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The Insect Play
1939, May 29
1h 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.
Directed by
Stephen Thomas
Written by
Karel Čapek, Josef Čapek
Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
Sheila Kay
The Larva
Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite
Stephen Thomas
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