“Don’t Forget The Pierrots!'' The Complete History of British Pierrot Troupes & Concert Parties
- Author: Lidington, Tony
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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