REVIEW REVIEW HELLO, GOODBYE AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY BYNICHOLASHANSEN Roslyn Oades’ latest work plays like an encyclopaedia of Australian attitudes to ageing. Community hall gatherings can mark such a breadth of occasions, from a band, to a council meeting or a wake. These times, when staged in the neutrality of a hall, can set up a range of existential feelings. Director Roslyn Oades brings her audio verbatim technique to life in this work with the young playing the old and vice versa. The mesh of audio recordings, edited from many hours of interviews with the young at parties and the aging in care, are re-voiced and rendered purposefully unreal. It may sound simple, but the actors must listen intently for their part, recorded amongst others, while inventing the accompanying nuanced gestures. PHOTO BY JEFF BUSBY PERFORMING LINES: HELLO, GOODBYE AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY 45