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.

• Josef ČapekWriter
• Stephen ThomasDirector
• Karel ČapekWriter

• Wilfrid GranthamThe Lepidopterist / First Snail
• Edmund WillardThe Tranp
• Pamela StandishThe Chrysalis
• Frank BirchMr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
• Maire O'NeillMrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
• Charles PetersRobber Beetle/Journalist
• Rupert Bruce LockhartThe Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
• Sheila KayThe Larva
• Leslie FrenchMr. Cricket / Second Snail
• Wendy ToyeMrs. Cricket
• Wilfred FranksThe Blind Ant Timekeeper
• Geoffrey WincottThe Parasite