These recent times have been some of the hardest challenges we've faced and as a community, it hit us pretty hard. However during these difficult times, here at Pocket Size Theatre, we wanted to spread a little positivity and share some peoples experiences because we are all in this together. Each day we'll be speaking to our friends in the industry to share their experiences with you all so take a read and see how people are getting through these hard times.
Let's stick together, share the love and get through this as a community!
Rodney Vubya credits include Street Scene (Opera North); Evita (Open Air Theatre); Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre); Cover General in The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre); Prince Richard in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Hoxton Hall); Branom/Marty A Clockwork Orange (Norway tour); Avis White in Oresteia III - Eumenides; Americana (Edinburgh Festival); Facehunters (Edinburgh Festival).
Let's stick together, share the love and get through this as a community!
*Some information mentioned in this article may be out of date due to the progress of the current situation. Please keep that in mind when reading*
Rodney Vubya credits include Street Scene (Opera North); Evita (Open Air Theatre); Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre); Cover General in The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre); Prince Richard in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Hoxton Hall); Branom/Marty A Clockwork Orange (Norway tour); Avis White in Oresteia III - Eumenides; Americana (Edinburgh Festival); Facehunters (Edinburgh Festival).
Can you tell us anything productive you’ve been doing?
In terms of my productivity, I’ve tried to keep on top of my physical activity, incorporating sustainable yoga practices throughout the week and doing friends’ workouts that they’ve made available via social media platforms - it gets me set up for the day and puts me in a great headspace, even if I don’t necessarily have a lot planned for the rest of the day. My partner runs his own successful photography business, Samuel Black Photography, and we’ve taken it upon ourselves to get me trained up to aid him with the retouching and administrative side of things. It’s been learning a completely new craft which, though daunting at first, has helped me feel useful and productive. Slowly but surely, we’re hoping for it to be a career that I can maintain alongside my acting work when this time eventually passes, and it enables us to keep it in the family persay and it feels me with great admiration for the work he has tirelessly put in for the last few years. I’ve also tried to make sure that I’m singing something every now and again to maintain my craft and playing around with a few things here and there that I’ve procrastinated in doing for a while.
