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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."

Cast

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Wilfrid Grantham

as The Lepidopterist / First Snail

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Edmund Willard

as The Tranp

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Pamela Standish

as The Chrysalis

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Frank Birch

as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

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Maire O'Neill

as Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

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Charles Peters

as Robber Beetle/Journalist

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Rupert Bruce Lockhart

as The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

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Sheila Kay

as The Larva

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Leslie French

as Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

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Wendy Toye

as Mrs. Cricket

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Wilfred Franks

as The Blind Ant Timekeeper

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Geoffrey Wincott

as The Parasite

Crew

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Andrée Howard

Choreographer

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Karel Čapek

Writer

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Stephen Thomas

Producer

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Clifford Bax

Adaptation

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Stephen Thomas

Director

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Frederic Austin

Music

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Hugh Stevenson

Costume Design

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Josef Čapek

Writer