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]
Filmography edit
Television edit
- A Country Practice as guest actor
- Home and Away (1998-2000) as Kylie Burton
- Tracey McBean (2001-06) as Voice
- Bambaloo (2003-07) as Gypsy (voice & puppeteer)
- Dogstar (2006-11) as Gemma (voice)
- Zigby (2009-13) as Voice
- Toybox (2010-14) as Remy (voice)
- Bananas in Pyjamas (2011-13) as Topsy the Kangaroo (voice)
- Kitty Is Not a Cat (2018-20) as Kitty (voice)
- Sea Princesses as Bia/Bea (voice)
Film edit
- Mary (1994) as Sister Paula
Audio edit
- Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday
Playwriting edit
- Acts of Courage by Currency Press (Stories of Love and Hate, Fast Cars and Tractor Engines and I'm Your Man)
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Nocera, Anthony (22 January 2022). "Documentary theatremaker Roslyn Oades". The Saturday Paper. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ Westbrook, Caroline (21 August 2019). "Who was Jesse McGregor in Home and Away and what were his biggest storylines?". Metro. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ "Creation Creation has the answers to life's biggest questions". CityMag. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "Roslyn Oades". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ a b Wilkinson, Linden (26 April 2016). Today We're Alive: Generating Performance in a Cross-Cultural Context, an Australian Experience. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-9279-7.
- ^ Garde, Ulrike; Mumford, Meg (19 May 2016). Theatre of Real People: Diverse Encounters at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4725-8023-8.
- ^ Jürs-Munby, Karen; Carroll, Jerome; Giles, Steve (19 December 2013). Postdramatic Theatre and the Political: International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-4081-8588-9.
- ^ "'The phones are all whispering': why a theatre-maker collected Melbourne's late-night calls". the Guardian. 23 May 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "Roslyn Oades". Chamber Made. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "2018 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "2012 | Sydney Theatre Awards". www.sydneytheatreawards.com. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "News: 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards". Sydney Theatre Company. 15 April 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ Oades, Roslyn (2014). Acts of courage: three headphone verbatim plays. Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency Press. ISBN 978-1-925005-25-7. OCLC 895948545.