Roslyn Oades

“This is an odd, exciting slice of cutting edge theatre . . . In theory it shouldn’t work, but it really and truly does”
  Simon Ferguson, Daily Telegraph

“This is probably the best performance I’ve seen all year and deserves to be embraced by a wider audience."
  David Williams, RealTime #70

"This is local narrative that transcends geography, presenting the universality of human experience and slapping down the lie of unbridgeable cultural
separation."
  Stephen Dunne, Sydney Morning Herald

Roslyn's work utilises an unusual performance technique she refers to as audio-scripting or headphone verbatim. Since 2001 Roslyn has been creating performances derived directly from carefully constructed audio recordings. Through the disciplined recreation of these ‘audio-scripts’ in performance, her work aims to recontextualise rarely heard or misrepresented Australian voices. The work magnifies candid, personal stories from within a specific community as a means of exploring broader political and social tensions.

As a theatre maker, she operates from the principle there is as much information embedded in the way someone speaks, as what they are saying. Roslyn has created and directed two headphone-verbatim works with Urban Theatre Projects & BYDS, Fast Cars & Tractor Engines (2005) and Stories of Love & Hate (2008). She is currently working on her third in a trilogy on courageous acts titled, I’m Your Man, with funding from the Australia Council for the Arts, Belvoir & BYDS.

In 2011, Roslyn will continue to hang out at boxing gyms as she gathers research material for I’m Your Man and the company will throw themselves into a second sweaty week of creative development on the floor in April. I’m Your Man will be ready for production in 2012. 

Also in 2011, Stories of Love & Hate will be remounted by the Sydney Theatre Company as part of their Education Season, May 24 – June 3:
http://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/stced/2011/stories-of-love-and-hate