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The Insect Play

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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The Insect Play

May 29, 1939
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Cast (12)

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

Crew (8)

Directing

Stephen Thomas
Director

Writing

Clifford Bax
Adaptation

Production

Stephen Thomas
Producer

Sound

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Costume & Make-Up

Hugh Stevenson
Costume Design

Crew

Andrée Howard
Choreographer

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