The Insect Play

The Insect Play

0% | May 29, 1939 | Music, Drama

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.

Featured Cast

Andrée Howard
Choreographer
Karel Čapek
Writer

Cast

The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
The Tranp
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
The Chrysalis
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

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