The Insect Play

May 29, 1939

1h 30m

★ 0.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Music

Drama

Production Companies

BBC

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Cast

The Lepidopterist / First Snail

Wilfrid Grantham

The Tranp

Edmund Willard

The Chrysalis

Pamela Standish

Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

Frank Birch

Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

Maire O'Neill

Robber Beetle/Journalist

Charles Peters

The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

Rupert Bruce Lockhart

The Larva

Sheila Kay

Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

Leslie French

Mrs. Cricket

Wendy Toye

The Blind Ant Timekeeper

Wilfred Franks

The Parasite

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