The Insect Play

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

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