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.

Cast & Crew

Director

Stephen Thomas

Wilfrid Grantham

The Lepidopterist / First Snail

Edmund Willard

The Tranp

Pamela Standish

The Chrysalis

Frank Birch

Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

Maire O'Neill

Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

Charles Peters

Robber Beetle/Journalist