Hello again! Well, it has to be said; we had a very successful first day of rehearsals. The Management team and Artistic Director were waiting at the stage door to greet everyone and guide all the artists, conductors, directors etc to their respective locations. Nobody was late, everyone was in great spirits, enthusiasm was high and the morning session kicked off without a hitch. For the most part the first part of the morning dealt with model-box showing and a briefing about the artistic vision of the creative’s. Then the sound of singing and laughter could be heard gradually all around the building and passing the Band Room just down the street, more thrilling notes churned and turned in the crisp September air.

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So, I arrived down to Wexford last night after a Dublin Fringe Festival show I’d been working on, to officially start today. Ah yes, arrivals weekend! From the four corners of the world, people will catapult into this little town over the next couple of days to begin their hard work on this year’s season. I was greeted by two colleagues who were waiting for me at the stage door today and we headed off for the compulsory coffee and a catch up before the time for catching up gets caught up somewhere else entirely. It was great to see them and hear all that’s been happening since they got stuck into things a while ago. And amazingly, only three phone calls in the 15 minutes we were in the cafe. But that was short lived as the work won’t do itself!

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With rehearsals swiftly approaching for this season and people coming from far and wide, have you ever wondered what it must be like to be an individual who travels for work from town to town, from city to city, from country to country and occasionally continents? What kind of person does that for a living? They choose to base themselves in one place and hope to get to see it occasionally throughout the year, because they work somewhere else? To leave all that’s familiar, voluntarily, and head off into the unknown to earn some money? To living out of a suitcase in a faceless hotel or apartment block. Having to re-adjust to time zones, climates, languages, cultures, food and customs? Christmas in New York or Summer in Iceland. Yes?

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Hello again!! I’m very pleased to let you all know that Wexford town based dance company ‘Myriad’, has been appointed the resident dance company for Wexford Opera House. The announcement was made on August 10th. From Artistic Director, Deirdre Grant on the appointment: “This new opportunity to collaborate and co-produce work with Wexford Opera House is an intriguing and exciting development for the company”.

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An enormous welcome to the most recent, new media element, of Wexford Festival Opera’s (WFO) website.

My name is Justin Murphy and I have been involved in various ways and capacities with WFO. As a child, WFO was always a magical time in the town, for me, even more than Christmas. There was always a great sense of something special and unique happening, even though I had no idea where the theatre even was then.

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