Last Famous Words
July 4th 2008 06:55
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Trevor Jamieson
Trevor Jamiesons last famous words quote the show he is appearing in during the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, “People go to France to see the Eifel Tower and they learn how to say hello in French, but when people come to Uluru how do they say hello in Pitjantjatjara?”
Deeply motivated by a desire to know more about his culture and language, Jamieson set off on a pilgrimage to understand “certain connectivity’s around the world post cold-war,” he explains, “in the 1950’s the British came to Australia and did atomic tests; and similar stuff was happening around… the first bomb they ever dropped was in Hiroshima. I went there for a week to visit the peace memorial and caught up with some lovely people who actually survived the bomb”. Trevor’s people come from Maralinga. The British atomic tests forced a relocation of his family, which is why he had such a hankering to understand more about such issues.
Our show is about language. There’s audience participation, and the nice idea is people learn our language”.
Trevor Jamieson
Trevor Jamiesons last famous words quote the show he is appearing in during the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, “People go to France to see the Eifel Tower and they learn how to say hello in French, but when people come to Uluru how do they say hello in Pitjantjatjara?”
Deeply motivated by a desire to know more about his culture and language, Jamieson set off on a pilgrimage to understand “certain connectivity’s around the world post cold-war,” he explains, “in the 1950’s the British came to Australia and did atomic tests; and similar stuff was happening around… the first bomb they ever dropped was in Hiroshima. I went there for a week to visit the peace memorial and caught up with some lovely people who actually survived the bomb”. Trevor’s people come from Maralinga. The British atomic tests forced a relocation of his family, which is why he had such a hankering to understand more about such issues.
Our show is about language. There’s audience participation, and the nice idea is people learn our language”.
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