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Day 3 - Wednesday 18th March 2020

Location: London, UK

COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak

 Work

All forthcoming social or work engagements from my diary have been removed.  It's a blank slate apart from reminders to give the cat her flea and worm medicine which she will be most pleased about.

As of Tuesday night, all my freelance work has been cancelled.  This isn't exactly surprising as all my work (acting or work in between) involves:
1. lots of other people
2. public buildings that hold lots of people
3. travelling with other people unnecessarily to places with lots of people

I'm genuinely concerned for my many friends and colleagues who will have no income for the foreseeable future.  I don't have a solution except to suggest that if you have kids who might need child care as the schools are closing and can afford to pay someone, consider asking any of your friends who are potentially going to be struggling.

The acting industry is, as ever, being creative and resilient - casting directors are offering Skype sessions and Q&A's over Twitter, Instagram etc - nice work guys and there are videos and ideas popping up all over the place of people recording children's stories, Shakespeare... you can take away the playpen but you can't stop us playing!
Favourite video of the day
TikTokJeremyLynchOfficial
https://www.tiktok.com/@jeremylynchofficial/video/6804857369860787461

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