“Common humanity brings with it hilarity and heartbreak… powerful, life-affirming stuff.” The Age
A Malthouse Theatre Production, presented by Performing Lines HELLO, GOODBYE & HAPPY BIRTHDAY
30 minutes Cremorne Theatre, QPAC 14+yrs
From 18 to 80, celebrating the times of your life.
Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday celebrates two very different perspectives on life – the clear-eyed lens of youth and the well-worn experience of age. Scripted from intimate real-life conversations with people aged 18 and 80+, this documentary performance is the creative culmination of a two-year research process by innovative headphone-verbatim theatre maker, Roslyn Oades. You are invited to a birthday bash like no other, with a cast of characters from the bookends of adult life. Eavesdrop on the candid thoughts, fears, loves and aspirations of those struggling with where to begin and how to say goodbye.
Playful and poignant in equal measure, Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday celebrates life well-lived with extraordinarily immediate and vivid performances.
Image: Jeff Busby
Meet the artist
Roslyn Oades & Collaborators
Theatremaker Roslyn Oades has a long-standing fascination with speech patterns, individual vocabularies and group conversations. She is known for her pioneering work in the field of headphone verbatim performance, a technique she has been exploring since 2001.
Oades’ work aims to magnify candid, personal stories from within a specific community as a means of exploring broader social and political tensions. She was 2013 Female Director-in-residence at Malthouse Theatre, where she created Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday for which she received a Green Room Award for outstanding writing/adaptation for the stage. Previous works include I’m Your Man and Stories of Love & Hate.
Contact:
- Fenn Gordon
- Producer
- Performing Lines
- fenn@performinglines.org.au
- +61 2 9310 0066
- http://performinglines.org.au/productions/hello-goodbye-happy-birthday/