The Insect Play

The Insect Play (1939)


  • Genre: Music, Drama
  • Release Date: 1939-05-29
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Stephen Thomas

Summary

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.

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  • 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
Crew Andrée Howard Choreographer
Writing Karel Čapek Writer
Production Stephen Thomas Producer
Writing Clifford Bax Adaptation
Directing Stephen Thomas Director
Sound Frederic Austin Music
Costume & Make-Up Hugh Stevenson Costume Design
Writing Josef Čapek Writer

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