PERSONS AND GROUPS In the Order of their Appearance

PERSONS

ELF

GNOME

TREE

WOLF

BEAR

LION

JOSEPH

MARY (Mute)

SHEPHERD

CAPTAIN of the host of Herod

HEROD

BELSHASAR

MELCHIOR

CASPAR

RUTH

CLAUS

SONG (Mute)

SORROW (Mute)

DEATH

POVERTY (Mute)

GROUPS

SHEPHERDS

HOST OF HEROD

FOLLOWERS OF THE THREE KINGS

OUTCASTS: 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.