Martin Ballard D. H. Lawrence), Mr Bumble (Oliver! by Charles Dickens/Lionel Bart), Azdak (The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht), The Doctor (A Film Short Woyzeck by Buchner), John The Baptist/Judas (Godspell), Christopher Columbus (Christopher Columbus by Michel De Ghelderode), God (Mystery play, Noahs Flood). In Pantomime: The Emperor, Widow Twankey – five times, Sgt Pong (Aladdin), Ugly Sister – five times, Baron Hardup (Cinderella), Bill Jukes (Peter Pan), Nanny (Hansel & Gretal) Dame Trot (four times)and Sam Shiley (Jack & The Beanstalk) Joy, Dame Dorothy Doo It (Beauty & The Beast), Nurse Nanny Norah (Sleeping Beauty), Mother Goose, Billy Goose(Mother Goose)
Pantomime and 18th centuries such as Claude-François Ménestrier (1631–1705), John Weaver (1673–1760), Jean-Georges Noverre (1727–1810) and Gasparo Angiolini (1731–1803), earned it respectability and attested to the capability of dance to render complex stories and express human emotion. In the Middle Ages, the Mummers Play was a traditional English folk play, based loosely on the Saint George and the Dragon legend, usually performed during Christmas gatherings, which contained the origin of many of the archetypal elements of the pantomime, such as stage fights, coarse humour and fantastic creatures, gender role reversal, and good defeating evil. Precursors of pantomime also included the masque,