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.
Screenplay
Cast
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Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist
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Wilfrid Grantham
First Snail
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Edmund Willard
The Tramp
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Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
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Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle
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Frank Birch
Commander of the Yellows
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle
Maire O'Neill
Philanthropist
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Charles Peters
Robber Beetle
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Charles Peters
Journalist
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Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly
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Rupert Bruce Lockhart
Inventor
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Sheila Kay
The Larva
Leslie French
Mr. Cricket
Leslie French
Second Snail
Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
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Frederic Austin
Composer