The Insect Play
19397.0 rating
- 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.
Cast
- Wilfrid Grantham
Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail

Edmund Willard
The Tranp
- Pamela Standish
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
- Frank Birch
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
- Charles Peters
Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
- Rupert Bruce Lockhart
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
- Sheila Kay
Sheila Kay
The Larva

Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
- Wilfred Franks
Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
- Geoffrey Wincott
Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite

















