Royce Bable was an ambitious 20-something with a promising career in media research when he got the feeling: the feeling that theres something more to life.

Its a familiar story among young people, and many have the opportunity to satisfy their curiosity with world travel. Bablehad not yet had that chance until his career really started taking off, but he seized it anyway.

What's unusual about Bables story, however, is that he did not stick to blogs or social media to recount or even remember his travels; he turned it into a one-man show. Its a quirky, off-kilter production called Not Here Right Now the hilariously touching tale of a tall man in tight spaces finding clarity and avoiding a quarter-life crisis in the Far East, all while wearing strappy-Velcro sandals (except to the wedding of the century).

Lois Reitzes spoke withBable about his travels in Southeast Asia and turning those experiences into a show. A graduate of Atlantas Tri-Cities High School Visual and Performing Arts Magnet Program, Bable realized that during his travels he had been asking himself one question:

How do I get back to what I was doing in high school? Which was performing in some way, he said.

Not Here Right Now is on stage at Synchronicity Theatre for two shows on Saturday, July 1.

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