Oliver Twist
a play
adapted from the
Charles Dickens novel

Cast List

Character	Description	Lines
Narrator	The storyteller	14
Oliver	A twelve year old orphan	45
Artful Dodger	A very savvy street kid	29
Bill Sikes	Master thief, cruel, vicious, heartless. A killer	32
Nancy	Bill’s girlfriend. Young, beautiful, warm-hearted, abused by Bill.	47
Fagin	A thief who takes in homeless kids and teaches them how to steal. An outcast. Suspicious.	13
Mr. Brownlow	Noble gentleman with a kind heart	19
Rose Maylie	Niece of Mr. Brownlow, the epitome of kindness and generosity	29
Maid	In Mr. Brownlow’s house, a busybody perfectionist	3
Magistrate Fang	The judge, a belligerent, condescending authority	13
Constables	Policemen	7
Bailiff	Official appointed by the court to serve writs	none
Ms. Mann	The workhouse supervisor, selfish, hard and miserly	4
Mr. Bumble	A beadle (court appointed official) supervising the workhouse	1
Workhouse Inmates	Orphan boys and girls	none, pantomime
Agnes Fleming	Oliver’s mom, in her early twenties, very ill	none, pantomime
Townspeople	People from all classes in Victorian England	chorus with some individual lines
Charlie Bates	One of Fagin’s gang	2
Fagin’s gang	Street boys and girls who steal for a living	chorus lines

Note: The cast size may vary depending on how many TOWNSPEOPLE, WORKHOUSE INMATES, and GANG members are cast.

Note: In some parts, gender is interchangeable and will have no affect on the theme of the story, despite the fact that the parts have been written to reflect the original tale’s gender differences.

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