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The Insect Play (1939)

Genre : Music, Drama

Runtime : 1H 30M

Director : Stephen Thomas

Synopsis

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.

Actors

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

Crews

Andrée Howard
Andrée Howard
Choreographer
Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek
Writer
Stephen Thomas
Stephen Thomas
Producer
Clifford Bax
Clifford Bax
Adaptation
Stephen Thomas
Stephen Thomas
Director
Frederic Austin
Frederic Austin
Music
Hugh Stevenson
Hugh Stevenson
Costume Design
Josef Čapek
Josef Čapek
Writer

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