She was polite but purposeful, ‘I’m sorry to interrupt, but I overheard you said something about the Green party in Ireland?’. Her half-smile didn’t reach her eyes, and she leaned in almost anxiously, studying me. I had been chatting (clearly too loudly) to another actor at the end of a casting workshop about how online auditions (known as self-tapes) had become the norm since we all were forced online during the Covid pandemic. My fellow actor was hearing the compelling stories of how I had found myself as the new chairperson of the Mayo Greens at the outbreak and led our monthly meetings into the virtual space of ‘can you hear us now?’ chants and back-to-front cameras. Taking advantage of the interruption, he found something incredibly interesting in the far corner of the car park which required his urgent attention, leaving me with my new and insistent conversationalist.