The Insect Play
90 mins
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.
Wilfrid Grantham
The Lepidopterist / First Snail
Pamela Standish
The Chrysalis
Frank Birch
Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows
Charles Peters
Robber Beetle/Journalist
Rupert Bruce Lockhart
The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor
Sheila Kay
The Larva
Wilfred Franks
The Blind Ant Timekeeper
Geoffrey Wincott
The Parasite
Stephen Thomas
Producer
Clifford Bax
Adaptation
Stephen Thomas
Director
Hugh Stevenson
Costume Design
Frederic Austin
Music
Andrée Howard
Choreographer