The Insect Play (1939)
Overview
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
Edmund Willard
The Tranp
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist
Leslie French
Mr. Cricket / Second Snail
Wendy Toye
Mrs. Cricket
