HAAKON WERLE, wholesale merchant and millowner
GREGERS WERLE, his son
OLD EKDAL
HJALMAR EKDAL, his son, a photographer
GINA EKDAL, Hjalmar’s wife
HEDVIG, their daughter, aged fourteen
MRS. SøRBY, housekeeper for the elder Werle
RELLING, a doctor
MOLVIK, a former divinity student
GRAABERG, a bookkeeper
PETTERSEN, manservant to the elder Werle
JENSEN, a hired waiter
A FAT MAN
A BALD-HEADED MAN
A NEARSIGHTED MAN
SIX OTHER MEN, dinner guests at Werle’s
OTHER HIRED SERVANTS
The first act takes place in WERLE’s house; the following four acts in HJALMAR EKDAL’s studio.