“INSECT PLAY”
CAPEK BROTHERS FORETELL CZECfI CRISIS/ ■ - Recent events in Central Europe have given topicality to this year’s annual production of the Workers’ Educational Association at Auckland. The piece is “The Insect Play” and not only are the authors, Karel and Josef Capek, Czechs, but in the “ants.scene” there is a foretelling of the fate which has befallen Czechoslovakia. The' black ants declare there will be war because they have a new war machine, because they still need a bit of the world, and because there is the question of prestige and trade and rights of nationality. The play was written as long ago as 1921. The war years had made Karel Capek compare, with a shade of j «S9
cynicism and disillusionment, men with aimless butterflies, vicious flies, tribes of ingenious fighting ants mechanically obeying orders in their work and battles. With his brother, he put his thoughts into a play, in which he has shown men as they often are, no better than insects.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1938, Page 5
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166“INSECT PLAY” Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1938, Page 5
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