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.
Directed by Stephen Thomas · Written by Karel Čapek
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Cast
- Wilfrid Grantham The Lepidopterist / First Snail
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Edmund Willard The Tranp - Pamela Standish The Chrysalis
- Frank Birch Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
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Maire O'Neill Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist - Charles Peters Robber Beetle/Journalist
- Rupert Bruce Lockhart The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
- Sheila Kay The Larva
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Leslie French Mr. Cricket / Second Snail -
Wendy Toye Mrs. Cricket - Wilfred Franks The Blind Ant Timekeeper
- Geoffrey Wincott The Parasite
Make it a double feature
2h 58m together
The Insect Play
Who Are You?
Both from Stephen Thomas.





