The Insect Play

The Insect Play (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.

  • Release Date: 1939-05-29
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Director: Stephen Thomas

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Cast

  • Wilfrid Grantham

    The Lepidopterist / First Snail

  • Edmund Willard

    The Tranp

  • Pamela Standish

    The Chrysalis

  • Frank Birch

    Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

  • Maire O'Neill

    Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

  • Charles Peters

    Robber Beetle/Journalist

  • Rupert Bruce Lockhart

    The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

  • Sheila Kay

    The Larva

  • Leslie French

    Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

  • Wendy Toye

    Mrs. Cricket

  • Wilfred Franks

    The Blind Ant Timekeeper

  • Geoffrey Wincott

    The Parasite

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