L'escamoteur

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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.


Sources

Facsimile French version of L'escamoteur, Hathi Trust Digital Library[2]

Facsimile version of the 1896 text of A Noble Outcast, Hathi Trust Digital Library[3]

Review of Jocrisse the Juggler in The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889) Wed 11 Sep 1872,page 2; Trove[4]

http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/index.php?id=121

https://www.nypl.org/research/collections/shared-collection-catalog/bib/b14132963

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Br%C3%A9sil

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8402612z.item