“Don’t Forget The Pierrots!'' The Complete History of British Pierrot Troupes & Concert Parties

Contents

• List of figures
• Thanks!
• Support for writing and illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Note about cover images
• Preface: "The Pierrot fable"
• Introduction
• 1 "Here we are again!": Current practice
• 2 "Trope to troupe": The origins of Pierrot in Britain
• 3 Minstrels: White and black
• 4 "The Seaside Minstrels"
• 5 Proliferation
• 6 "Bringing Blighty to the Boys with troupes for the troops": Pierrot troupes and concert parties in the First World War
• 7 Ambiguities in the evolution of the form and its developments during the inter-war years
• 8 Khaki-clad pierrot heroes: British concert parties/pierrot troupes in the Second World War
• 9 "It's that troupe again ...": Concert party adaptations for the airwaves and post-war British pop culture
• 10 "Impacts and reverberations": The ways in which the seaside troupe format has directly affected contemporary culture
• 11 Conclusion: Pierrots and concert parties provide a portal to past, present and future popular culture
• Appendices
• Appendix 1: Timeline of pierrot/concert-party projects by Tony Lidington
• Appendix 2: Programme for Moore & Burgess Minstrels, April 14th 1877
• Appendix 3: early members of Clifford Essex's troupe
• Appendix 4: Table illustrating the date of the first connections to seaside resorts by steamer and railway
• Appendix 5: Spreadsheet of troupes with the words "Royal" or "Imperial" in the title
• Appendix 6: List of troupes formed prior to the First World War
• Appendix 7: Song books & publishers for pierrot troupes and concert parties
• Appendix 8: List of troupes operating in the First World War
• Appendix 9: Pierrot troupe list for 1918-1939
• Appendix 10: Numbers of ENSA performances (from information provided by Basil Dean)
• Appendix 11: Annual budgetary expenditures for ENSA
• Appendix 12: List of seaside shows opening 1946-1961
• Appendix 13: The Roosters
• Glossary of terms
• References
• Index