Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960

This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

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