West Midlands Will Morris' Birmingham Pierrots 1917 WW1 Postcard

BG818   Antique postcard from 1917 of Will Morris' Pierrots (he was from Birmingham and his travelling Pierrots travelled the West Midland Music Halls and Theatres of the era) which this is wartime used but very good condition indeed.

The Pierrot of popular taste also spawned a uniquely English entertainment. In 1891, the singer and banjoist Clifford Essex, resolved to create a troupe of English Pierrot entertainers,and called them the seaside Pierrots who, as late as the 1950s, performed on the piers of Brighton, Margate, and Blackpool  They inspired the Will Morris Pierrots, named after their Birmingham founder. They originated in the Smethwick area in the late 1890s and played to large audiences in the Midlands. Walter Westley Russell committed these performers to canvas in The Pierrots (c. 1900).