PERSONS AND GROUPSIn the Order of their Appearance
PERSONSELFGNOMETREEWOLFBEARLIONJOSEPHMARY (Mute)SHEPHERDCAPTAINof the host of HerodHERODBELSHASARMELCHIORCASPARRUTHCLAUSSONG (Mute)SORROW (Mute)DEATHPOVERTY (Mute)GROUPSSHEPHERDSHOST OF HERODFOLLOWERS OF THE THREE KINGSOUTCASTS: FOLLOWERS OF SONG, SORROW AND POVERTY
For Army Camp productions, in camps where it may not be practicable to have women as acting principals, the two mute female figures, MARY and SONG, may—if necessary—be omitted, and RUTH be acted by some well-skilled youth, as was the custom in Elizabethan days. The part of TREE, in any production, may be acted either by a young woman or by a young man (in small-scale productions preferably by a young woman). ELF and GNOME are preferably acted by children: a girl and a boy, or—if desirable—by two boys. In Chorus A, and in the first Semi-Chorus of the Outcasts, choir boys may, if need be, take the places of women.