The Insect Play
Stephen Thomas1939-05-29
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90 min
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.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Wilfrid Grantham | The Lepidopterist / First Snail | Unowned |
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Edmund Willard | The Tranp | Unowned |
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Pamela Standish | The Chrysalis | Unowned |
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Frank Birch | Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows | Unowned |
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Maire O'Neill | Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist | Unowned |
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Charles Peters | Robber Beetle/Journalist | Unowned |
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Rupert Bruce Lockhart | The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor | Unowned |
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Sheila Kay | The Larva | Unowned |
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Leslie French | Mr. Cricket / Second Snail | Unowned |
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Wendy Toye | Mrs. Cricket | Unowned |
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Wilfred Franks | The Blind Ant Timekeeper | Unowned |
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Geoffrey Wincott | The Parasite | Unowned |