Perth, Australia.(GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT)(Perth International Arts Festival)(Brief article)

PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL: When family members pass on, "we do not use their names or talk about them. So when they asked us whether people had died out there, we'd say nothing. It made it very easy for the government to pretend." So speaks Aboriginal actor Trevor Jamieson in Ngapartji Ngapartji (pronounced "Naa-par-gee"), a touring theatre work by experimental, community-based Aussie theatre group Big hART.

At its center are the nuclear tests conducted by the British government during the Cold War in Australia's Maralinga Desert--in supposed ignorance ...

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