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!
*Some information mentioned in this article may be out of date due to the progress of the current situation.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*
Perry O'Dea was most recently seen in the UK Tour of Motown the Musical. His other credits include Eva’s Brother in Evita (UK Tour); Cover Michael ‘Mickey’ Johnstone in Blood Brothers (UK Tour); Isacheer and Cover Pharaoh in Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (UK Tour); Ensemble in Oklahoma! (UK Tour); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (West Yorkshire Playhouse & UK Tour); Ensemble and cover Kemp/Hermit in Young Frankenstein (Garrick Theatre).
On Monday 16th March 2020, The Society of London Theatre announced the closure of all Theatres in London. This followed suit with regional venues. Where were you when you found out and what was your initial reaction?
I was working in London in two gyms at the time. I work at 1Rebel Victoria and F45 Cannon Street in between jobs. I had a mixture of feelings, anger, denial, scared it was a very strange time to be in especially in London. Two days later I travelled back home to the Isle of Man.
Can you tell us anything productive you’ve been doing?
During this time I’ve spent a lot of it building my business’ which is very funny as I don’t see myself as an entrepreneur AT ALL but I’ve been putting in a lot of hours to the administration, website building, advertising creating content and creating E-BOOKS for www.onsetfitness.co.uk. I have also been a part of a few songs for the NHS one being ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ created by Chris Poon and a Manx (Isle of Man) one of Daydream believer. I have also been a part of ‘Bard from the Barn’ created by Aaron Sidwell creating an exciting Shakespeare piece all in lockdown.
