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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 Crew

Hugh Stevenson
Costume Design
Frederic Austin
Music

Cast

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

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