Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960

Gilli Bush-Bailey is Professor Emerita of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, United Kingdom. Kate Flaherty is a Senior Lecturer in English and Drama at the Australian National University.

List of Illustrations

Contributors

Acknowledgment

Introduction: Kate Flaherty and Gilli Bush-Bailey

Vanishing cts and Making Tracks

1: Diana James and Inawinytji Williamson

Kungkarangkalpa: Travelling Women of the Seven Sisters Songline

Part 1: Ephemerality and creative methodology

2: Joanne Tompkins and Liyang Xia

Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cantonese Opera Performances in the Victorian Goldfields

3: Jacky Bratton and Gilli Bush-Bailey

Bodies of Evidence: The unremarkable history of Emma Stanley (1816-1881)

4: Anna-Sophie Jürgens

Lady Clowns: Clown-Ballerinas, Dancing "Clownesses" and Female Clowns on the Popular Stage around 1900

5: Jane Woollard (University of Tasmania)

Tracks, Knots, Stage Tact and Boots: A Reflection

Part II: Peril, illness and ageing

6: Marlis Schweitzer

"It Was a Most Beautiful Moonlit Night...": Mrs. John Drew’s Shipwreck Narratives

7: Peta Tait

Risk and Colonial Touring: Female Circus Performers in Aerial and Lion Acts

8: Janice Norwood

Reading Race, Repertoire and Transcontinental Reception through Madame Celeste’s Colonial Encounter

9: Kerry Murphy

"Covent Garden on Wheels" Thomas Quinlan’s Operatic tours of 1912–1914 and beyond

10: Laura Ginters

"Let me come to Athens [/Lamplough], shelter me, accept me in your home": Medea Transported to the Goldfields and Beyond in Nineteenth-Century Australia.

Part III: Reversing flows and Cross currents

11: Kate Flaherty

Fanny Kemble, Slavery, and Transatlantic Commodity Trade

12: Katherine K. Preston

Women Take Control: Managers of English-Language Opera Companies in Late 19th-Century America

13: Sarah Balkin

Transporting Humour: Artemus Ward and American Comedy in Britain

14: Gillian Arrighi

Australian Child Actors on Early Twentieth-century Touring Circuits

15: Mark Houlahan

Crossing the Ditch: Trans-Tasman Stages 1841-1896

16: Veronica Kelly (University of Queensland)

Between the "Theatre Game" and Anthropology: International and Indigenous Black Women Entertainers Perform Modernity in Australia 1950s-1960s