Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Motive Theatrics
in Tigard, Oregon

Characters

• CHARLIE BUCKET (8-15) Sweet, smart, hopeful and loving. A child with wonderful innocence and vulnerability.
• WILLY WONKA (Masc/30s+) The sly, charming star of the show. Lithe, eccentric. His larger than life persona can go from charming and comical, to magically mysterious and dark.
• GRAMPA JOE (Masc/60s+) Impish. He is Charlie's imaginative, fun, kind and loving grandfather. After many years being confined to a bed, his childish energy returns when Charlie finds the Golden Ticket.
• VERUCA SALT (Femme) Vicious and determined.
• VIOLET BEAUREGARDE (Femme) Confident, forward, and full of attitude.
• AUGUSTUS GLOOP (Masc)
• MIKE TEAVEE (Masc) A fireplug with a ridiculous amount of energy.
• MR SALT (Masc/20s+) Veruca's goofy, eccentric, distracted, hilarious father. Finds it impossible to say no, giving in to every ridiculous demand his daughter makes.
• MR BEAUREGARDE (Masc/20s+) Violet's ineffectual father. Ignores his back-talking, insult-hurling daughter.
• MRS TEAVEE (Femme/20s+) She needs amphetamines to get through the day and deal with her outrageous son. Tense, extreme, and hilarious.
• MRS GLOOP (Femme/20s+) Augustus's German, moronic, Wagnerian mother. Mirthlessly smiles as though it were affixed to the front of her face.
• GRANDMA JOSEPHINE
• GRANDMA GEORGINA
• GRANDPA GEORGE
• MRS GREEN A vegetable seller.
• JERRY
• CHERRY
• MRS BUCKET (Femme/20s+) Charlie's warm and kind-hearted mother. Worrier. Generous and loving.