Swapping the boards for the furrows

FROM The Shadow of a Gunman in the Gate Theatre to the Plough and the Stars in North-East Galway: one young couple have swapped the cosmopolitan world of theatre for a life producing not O’Casey’s plays, but cases of organic produce for restaurants, shops and local buyers.
Audrey Wright, originally from Claremorris, and Wexford-born Mick Hession both worked in theatre, she as a stage manager, he as a sound engineer. They actually met on a Gate production of The Shadow of a Gunman, but decided starting a family was not compatible with the travel, late nights and frenetic activity of the theatrical world at national and international level.
So they made the move West and after plenty of trial and error, and a second child, Sam, now five, find themselves at the helm of a thriving commercial organic farm in deepest rural Ireland.