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Cast

Wilfrid Grantham

Wilfrid Grantham

The Lepidopterist / First Snail

Edmund Willard

Edmund Willard

The Tranp

Pamela Standish

Pamela Standish

The Chrysalis

Frank Birch

Frank Birch

Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

Maire O'Neill

Maire O'Neill

Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

Charles Peters

Charles Peters

Robber Beetle/Journalist

Rupert Bruce Lockhart

Rupert Bruce Lockhart

The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

Sheila Kay

Sheila Kay

The Larva

Leslie French

Leslie French

Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

Wendy Toye

Wendy Toye

Mrs. Cricket

Wilfred Franks

Wilfred Franks

The Blind Ant Timekeeper

Geoffrey Wincott

Geoffrey Wincott

The Parasite

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Stephen Thomas

Stephen Thomas

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Clifford Bax

Clifford Bax

Adaptation

Josef Čapek

Josef Čapek

Writer

Stephen Thomas

Stephen Thomas

Director

Hugh Stevenson

Hugh Stevenson

Costume Design

Frederic Austin

Frederic Austin

Music

Andrée Howard

Andrée Howard

Choreographer

Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek

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The Insect Play

19390.0 / 1090 min
Music, Drama

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.