Once On This Island - Characters

Characters

• Ti Moune, a peasant girl
• Daniel Beauxhomme, a grande homme; Ti Moune's love interest ("Beauxhomme" means the beautiful man).
• Papa Ge, sly Demon of Death; the main antagonist of the show. He tricks the main character into giving her life for another. He is seen as a skeleton and is very sneaky. The people on the island fear him because of what he represents: the unknown that is death.
• Erzulie, beautiful Goddess of Love; the foil to Papa Ge
• Agwe, God of Water
• Asaka, Mother of the Earth
• Mama Euralie, Ti Moune's adoptive mother
• Tonton Julian, Ti Moune's adoptive father
• Andrea Deveraux, Daniel's promised wife; also "Madame Armand"
• Armand, Daniel's stern father; also "Armand", the ancestor
• Gatekeeper, the Hotel Beauxhomme's fierce guard (commonly played by Armand)
• Little Ti Moune, Ti Moune as a child; also "The Little Girl"
• Daniel's Son, Daniel's young son (commonly played by Daniel)
• Storytellers/Gossips, various Grands Hommes and peasants (in most productions, the storytellers are shown as playing the parts of the Gods)

Note: The original cast was chosen along racial lines, with darker-skinned actors portraying the peasants, and lighter-skinned actors portraying the upper-class landowners. In the script, the writers provide small line changes that can be used to remove references to skin color to accommodate multi-ethnic productions, while preserving the storyline about differences between the upper and lower classes.