Trevor Jamieson wins Best Actor in a Lead Role for Ngapartji Ngapartji in Sydney Theater Awards 2008.

Australian Theatre Actor Trevor Jamieson, took out the ‘Best Actor in a Lead Role Award’ at the Sydney Theatre awards ceremony this week.

His starring role in the long running theatre production of Ngapartji Ngapartji, a bilingual production developed with Central Australian Aboriginal people has played around Australia to approximately 30,000 people, many of whom have taken part in an online Pitjantjatjara language course before seeing the show.

“I am immensely proud of this play, Its evolution over a nine-year period has helped hundreds of people both indigenous and non-indigenous explore new ways of working together and encourages cross cultural awareness, recognizing the importance of indigenous languages,” he said.

Ngapartji Ngapartji, which roughly means, “I give you something, you give me something” in Pitjantjatjara, was produced by the Big hART group.

It tells the true story of the Spinifex people (a clan of the Pitjantjatjara people) who were moved off their lands to make way for British atomic testing in the mid-20th Century…Report by the Northern Territory News.