Roslyn Oades Explained

Roslyn Oades is an Australian actress, puppeteer and theatre maker.

Her acting work includes iconic Australian TV shows A Country Practice as a guest actor, and a two year stint on Home and Away as Kylie Burton.[1] Her character in Home and Away died from a drug overdose while in custody.[2] She also played Remy in Toybox from 2010 to 2014.

Oades has been described as one of Australia’s leading documentary theatremakers,[3] noted particularly for her work pioneering headphone verbatim techniques[4] [5] [6] [7] where actors near simultaneously speak the recorded words of real people as they listen to them. Her work has been described as being like a documentary film-maker or investigative journalist, where she embedded herself in a community to develop source material for a work.[8] The development of her headphone theatre techniques started from observing them as a drama exercise in a workshop run by director Mark Wing-Davey. She has recently departed from headphone verbatim work, moving towards works created through soundscapes, citing Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's work The Murder of Crows as formative influences.

Her audio-scripted performance work Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday received the Green Room Award for outstanding writing for the Australian Stage and in 2019 Oades received a special Green Room Award for Technical Achievement in theatre.[9] Her work has also been nominated for Helpmann Awards,[10] Sydney Theatre Awards[11] and NSW Premier’s Literary Award.[12]

Three of her works have been published as a compilation titled Acts of Courage by Currency Press, including Stories of Love and Hate (made in response to Cronulla riots through interviews with 65 people over a two-year period) Fast Cars and Tractor Engines and I'm Your Man[13]

Filmography

Television

Film

Audio

Playwriting

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nocera . Anthony . 2022-01-22 . Documentary theatremaker Roslyn Oades . 2022-02-09 . The Saturday Paper . en.
  2. Web site: Westbrook . Caroline . 2019-08-21 . Who was Jesse McGregor in Home and Away and what were his biggest storylines? . 2022-03-28 . Metro . en.
  3. Web site: 2021-05-14. Creation Creation has the answers to life's biggest questions. 2022-02-09. CityMag. en.
  4. Web site: Roslyn Oades. 2022-02-09. The Wheeler Centre. en.
  5. Book: Wilkinson, Linden. Today We're Alive: Generating Performance in a Cross-Cultural Context, an Australian Experience. 2016-04-26. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-4438-9279-7. en.
  6. Book: Garde. Ulrike. Theatre of Real People: Diverse Encounters at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond. Mumford. Meg. 2016-05-19. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-4725-8023-8. en.
  7. Book: Jürs-Munby. Karen. Postdramatic Theatre and the Political: International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance. Carroll. Jerome. Giles. Steve. 2013-12-19. A&C Black. 978-1-4081-8588-9. en.
  8. Web site: 2021-05-23. 'The phones are all whispering': why a theatre-maker collected Melbourne's late-night calls. 2022-02-09. the Guardian. en.
  9. Web site: Roslyn Oades. 2022-02-09. Chamber Made. en.
  10. Web site: 2018 Nominees and Winners Helpmann Awards. 2022-02-09. www.helpmannawards.com.au.
  11. Web site: 2012 Sydney Theatre Awards. 2022-02-09. www.sydneytheatreawards.com.
  12. Web site: 2016-04-15. News: 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. 2022-02-09. Sydney Theatre Company. en.
  13. Book: Oades, Roslyn. Acts of courage: three headphone verbatim plays. 2014. Currency Press. 978-1-925005-25-7. Strawberry Hills, NSW. 895948545.

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