Roslyn Oades

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

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Her acting work includes iconic Australian TV shows A Country Practice as a guest actor, and a two year stint on the 47-time Logie Award-winning show 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, [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]

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