{"id":379532,"date":"2026-04-03T06:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379532\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:29:10","slug":"an-incredible-journey-best-of-wexford-drama-celebrated-at-national-opera-house-as-groups-qualify-for-all-ireland-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379532\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An incredible journey\u2019 \u2013 Best of Wexford drama celebrated at National Opera House as groups qualify for All-Ireland finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bridge Drama was the winner of the Open Section, pictured on the final night of the Wexford Drama Festival 2026 in the National Opera House on Friday. (l to r)- Myles Sunderland, Sinead Rafter, Susan Somers, Mairead Ryan, and Mairead Cummings. Photo: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b0137f98-7ab6-41b8-8919-916c1aa19c47.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bridge Drama was the winner of the Open Section, pictured on the final night of the Wexford Drama Festival 2026 in the National Opera House on Friday. (l to r)- Myles Sunderland, Sinead Rafter, Susan Somers, Mairead Ryan, and Mairead Cummings. Photo: Jim Campbell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Since its inception in 1963, the annual Wexford Drama Festival has been a vibrant celebration of the theatrical arts, as well as a step on the journey to All-Ireland success and this year proved no different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Bridge Drama celebrated their incredibly successful run with a sixth win at the festival at the National Opera House. The Castlebridge group were absolutely thrilled to finish their marathon tour of Ireland on home soil with Things I Know To Be True, by Andrew Bovell and directed by Susan Somers, with the added bonus of winning first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bridge Drama was the winner of the Open Section, pictured on the final night of the Wexford Drama&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3502,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-379532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cillian-boggan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}