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

Thanks!

Acknowledgements

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