Ruva Ngwenya on becoming Tina Turner: ‘It is truly a triple threat’s role’

‘Everything I’ve ever done has led me here.’ Ruva Ngwenya in TINA: The Tina Turner Musical is playing now at Sydney’s Theatre Royal. Photograph: Daniel Boud/Theatre Royal Sydney

When you’re reliving scenes of someone else’s chaotic, traumatic life, you need a place of calm.

For actor and singer Ruva Ngwenya, star of the Australian production of the Tina Turner Musical, it’s her fairy-lit dressing room at the Theatre Royal.