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If ants could speak, if they could love and hate and dream and philosophize like humans, how would they react to the present state of the world? Crist in the NY Herald-Tribune wrote: "We come upon the ant colony at a time when words have replaced numbers as language; radio, telephone and a secret war weapon (DDT) have established superiority over the enemy brown ants and the scientist is ready to go beyond man's machines to man himself, to discover the 'X' that makes man's world go round. The mysterious ingredient is, of course, love—and before long the scientist has taught it to a boy and girl ant, and the queen. Contentment reigns. The humanizing process continues to the point where the ants have 'politics, confusion—everything' plus the utterly unhuman factor of happiness. They manage to get rid of that but then hit upon the equally unhuman notion of conducting a full-scale non-deadly war. The scientist sets out to give this secret to the President of the United States. His attempt to gain the Presidential ear is frustrated but at least he and his queen can, like humans, conclude that they 'have lived.' A truly delightful piece that has proven to be enormously popular.
September 6 - 14, 1968
The Little Theatre
Genre: Comedy
Playwright: Samuel Spewack
Director: Maria Bacsak
Raising funds for the Girl Guide Association
Reviews
From BNT newsletter August 1968
We hope to see you at Under the Sycamore Tree. This is our next production, and it will be staged 6th to 14th September. The charity night, 6th September, is being given for the Girl Guide Association.
Maria Bacsak is the producer of this very unusual play. When we tell you that two of the leading characters are ants, you will realise that it is – well, at our Committee Meeting we discussed carious ways of describing it – and I think we finally agreed that comedy fantasy was the most apt description: come and decide for yourself.
From BNT newsletter September 1968
This very difficult play has just completed its season. Audience participation was not good, and it is hoped that our December production will prove to be popular with out patrons. A number of new players were in this production, and we hope that this taste of theatre will bring them back to take part in another play.
