
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.
MusicDrama
The Insect Play
Rating
0.0/10
Release Date
1939-05-29
Runtime
90 minutes
Status
Released
Cast

Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail

Edmund Willard
The Tranp

Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis

Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist

Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

Sheila Kay
The Larva

Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket

Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper

Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite
Production Companies

BBC