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The Insect Play

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Calorie Rating: 126
Released: 1939-05-29
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Studios: BBC,


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.

Director / Directors



Cast

Wilfrid Grantham
Character: The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
Character: The Tranp
Pamela Standish
Character: The Chrysalis

Frank Birch
Character: Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill
Character: Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Charles Peters
Character: Robber Beetle/Journalist

Rupert Bruce Lockhart
Character: The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
Sheila Kay
Character: The Larva
Leslie French
Character: Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

Wendy Toye
Character: Mrs. Cricket
Wilfred Franks
Character: The Blind Ant Timekeeper
Geoffrey Wincott
Character: The Parasite


Production and Crew

Hugh Stevenson
Costume Design

Clifford Bax
Adaptation

Andrée Howard
Choreographer