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.
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Cast
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Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
Also in
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Dark Journey
Stephen Thomas
Karel Čapek
Clifford Bax
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
Also in
The Prime Minister
Sixty Glorious Years
Josef Čapek
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Also in
The Challenge
Who Goes Next?
Nigel Playfair
Frederic Austin
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Known for
Juno and the Paycock
Paul Selver
Stephen Thomas Director · Karel Čapek Writer Josef Čapek Writer
First release May 29, 1939 · Produced in United Kingdom
Production
BBC
Production
United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · May 29, 1939
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