This much I know: Seamus Power

You can’t be sensible all the time. You must go with your heart.

Growing up, acting never crossed my mind. I wasn’t taken to the theatre as a child. Then, one night out of the blue I was meeting a friend for a drink but, as I was bored of the pub, I suggested we do something else instead. He agreed to come to a show in The Theatre Royal in Waterford. I was gobsmacked, blown away. Afterwards, I knew I had to get involved with theatre. I just really had the feeling that I could do what the people on stage were doing.

I approached Red Kettle theatre company, it was their production of The Shaughran by Dion Boucicault, and they were kind enough to let me get involved. I spent a few months looking after props and watching them rehearse.