Brighton West Pier Theatre – Italian Marionettes – 1920s

About this Italian Marionettes theatre programme

An original programme for the Italian Marionettes at the Brighton West Pier Theatre, from the early 1920s. The bill includes Betty Ballance and Bunkham & Blarneys. Puppetry and variety were favourite seaside entertainments, and programmes from the long-lost West Pier theatre are evocative pieces of old theatre programmes for collectors of Brighton and seaside history.

Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr, a tiny ni at centre left edge (what the codes mean)

Did you know?

• Brighton’s West Pier was designed by Eugenius Birch and opened in 1866.
• A theatre was later added at the pier head, and a concert hall followed in 1916.
• The pier closed in 1975 and was largely destroyed by fires in 2003, leaving its skeletal remains a Brighton landmark.