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.[ citation needed]
Oades has been described as one of Australia’s leading documentary theatremakers, [1] [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. [1] [5] 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. [1]
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) [1] Fast Cars and Tractor Engines and I'm Your Man [13]
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.[ citation needed]
Oades has been described as one of Australia’s leading documentary theatremakers, [1] [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. [1] [5] 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. [1]
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) [1] Fast Cars and Tractor Engines and I'm Your Man [13]