Music ·Drama · United Kingdom · 1939 · 1h 30m

The Insect Play

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Director
Stephen Thomas
Cast
Wilfrid Grantham as The Lepidopterist / First Snail Edmund Willard as The Tranp Pamela Standish as The Chrysalis Frank Birch as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows Maire O'Neill as Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist Charles Peters as Robber Beetle/Journalist
Crew
Karel Čapek — Writer Josef Čapek — Writer Stephen Thomas — Producer Hugh Stevenson — Costume Design
Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes
dance
Key Collaborators
Stephen Thomas Director Karel Čapek Writer Josef Čapek Writer Stephen Thomas Producer Hugh Stevenson Costume Design
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