British Nuclear Testing in Australia: Performing the Maralinga Experiment through Verbatim Theatre

摘要

This paper reports and comments on, in a way that is relevant to historians of science, an outcome of the 2002 Adelaide Festival of Arts, which initiated a program of cultural activities associated with Maralinga, the site of the British permanent testing facility from 1956-67. In its original conception, this particular festival focussed on themes of ecological sustainability, truth and reconciliation and cultural diversity.