The Pillowman character list part 2?

Question

ok earlier i asked for a list of characters now i know the are 4 characters in pillowman and these 4 characters play other smaller parts

what i am asking now is can the smaller parts be played separately instead of being played by the leads

and if they are how big will these parts be???

so for example can we use 8 actors to perform this with 4 people playing the leads and 4 people playing the extra parts and how big will the extra parts be???

cheers for any answer

Answer 1

Yes

I saw a production last year and there were seven actors- the two cops, the writer, the brother and then... there was a mother, father and child.

Those last three were not large roles but it seemed important that there were different actors playing them...