The_Yellow_Ticket_(play)

<i>The Yellow Ticket</i> (play)

The Yellow Ticket (play)

Play by Michael Morton

The Yellow Ticket is a 1914 Broadway play by dramatist Michael Morton, which premiered at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre in Manhattan on January 20, 1914.[1]

Belle Mitchell as Marya in a 1915 U.S. touring production of "The Yellow Ticket".

Plot

Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to pretend to be a prostitute to obtain a prostitute's passport (a "yellow ticket") in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. When she arrives in St. Petersburg, she learns that her father has been killed. She encounters a young journalist and tells him about injustices the government has kept him from learning about.

Original cast

In other media

Film

See also

References

  1. [1]
    The Yellow Ticket, by Michael Morton, as produced by AH Woods on Broadway at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre; IBDb.com


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