The Lottery Ticket and Lawyer's Clerk

The Lottery Ticket and Lawyer's Clerk is a farce in one act by Samuel Beazley (1786–1851)[1]

The shortened title, The Lottery Ticket, is often found, as well as The Lottery Ticket, or The Lawyers's Clerk in some versions.

The original text

It was based on a work by Louis-Benoit Picard. First Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in December 1826 and published as The Lottery Ticket and Lawyer's Clerk by C. Chapple in 1827.

Performance history in South Africa

1846: First performed as The Lottery Ticket, or the Lawyer's Clerk in Cape Town by the All the World's a Stage on Friday, 4 September, with The Brigand (Planché) and The Original (Morton).

1855: Performed in Cape Town on Thursday 26 July 1855 by Sefton Parry as part of his farewell performance, alongside A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock (Brough) and Buried Alive, or The Visit to Japan (M'Pherson).

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beazley

https://archive.org/stream/lotteryticketan00picagoog#page/n4/mode/2up

Library of Congress Internet Archive[2]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 415, 433

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