L'escamoteur

L'escamoteur ("The juggler") is a play in five acts by Adolphe d'Ennery (1811-1899)[] and Jules Brésil (1818-1899)[1]

first performed at the Théâtre de la Gaité, Paris, October 12th, 1860 and published in Paris by Michél Levy Frères in the same year.

Adapted into English as Jocrisse the Juggler a drama in three acts by Thomas William Robertson (1829-1871) and first performed at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, London, as Magloire, the Prestigiator, later published as Jocrisse the Juggler by T.H. Lacy.

This in turn was the basis of A Noble Outcast, a drama in four acts by John Arthur Fraser (1838-1898). Originally performed in 1888, it was published in Chicago by the Dramatic Publishing Company in 1896 (Sergel's acting drama, no. 429).

It may also have been billed simply as Outcast by a company touring South Africa in 1919.