E-raamat: "e;Don't Forget The Pierrots!'' The Complete History of British Pierrot Troupes & Concert Parties

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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 Its 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 Essexs 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 19181939

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 19461961

Appendix 13: The Roosters

Glossary of terms

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Index

Tony Lidington is associate lecturer of Drama at the University of Exeter, UK. Tony has been a professional showman for 40 years researching and implementing British popular entertainment forms in a wide variety of contexts throughout the country. He is founder and performer of the last-remaining professional seaside pierrot troupe the "Pierrotters" and has performed at countless resorts and events as his alter ego "Uncle Tacko!"