Wooden Bridge Productions presents
Paddy – The Life and Times of Paddy Armstrong
Written by Mary-Elaine Tynan, Don Wycherley and Niamh Gleeson
FRI 30–SAT 31 MAY, 8PM
Post-show talk FRI 30 MAY
Live at The Everyman
A one-man show starring Don Wycherley as Paddy, this play is inspired by Paddy’s memoir Life after Life, a Guildford Four Memoir (2017).
Fifty years after his wrongful conviction, at the age of 74, Paddy is facing into his twilight years and wrestling with a thousand turbulent memories. In Paddy, he relives the journey that forever altered his destiny.
Paddy is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of forgiveness, reminding us that the privilege of freedom and love, family and everyday life can restore us and mend the scars of even the most savage injustice.
Don Wycherley brings unflinching honesty, pathos and humour to his portrayal of Paddy, a man failed and scarred by a flawed system yet refusing to be defined by it.
★★★★★ “Don Wycherley is incandescent in this journey from disaster to redemption” – The Irish Times
“Wycherley is superlative in this exquisitely tender portrayal of Paddy Armstrong” – Sunday Independent
“Gritty and moving… Unmissable” – The Irish Independent
“Incredible… Don Wycherley in the performance of his life… Unforgettable”– Joe Duffy
“A stunning play and performance. Don’t miss it”– Alastair Logan, Guildford Four solicitor
“This is writing and acting at its most powerful… a totally engrossing experience. It truly is a show not to be missed” – Michael Harnett, playwright
“A superb production. Wycherley is captivating and we hung on his every word” – audience member
“Hilarious, moving, infuriating. I was moved beyond words. I want to see it again” – audience member
Post-Show Talk – FRI 30 MAY
Louise Crowley, a Professor in Family Law at the School of Law, UCC and spear-head of the Bystander Intervention, will lead a post-show talk on Tuesday 8 October.
Louise Crowley is a solicitor and a first-class honours graduate of University College Cork (BCL 1996; LLM 1997), (MATLHE 2020) and Cardiff University (PhD 2010). She is a Professor in Family Law at the School of Law, UCC. Her research interests include Family Law and the recognition and regulation of multiple family formations, and the breakdown of those relationships, particularly marital breakdown, as well as domestic violence and the adequacy of regulatory responses and capacity for perpetrator programmes to play an effective role in protecting the victims of domestic violence.
At UCC, Louise has developed the campus-wide Bystander Intervention initiative which seeks to educate and empower staff and students to challenge the normalisation of sexual abuse and to recognise their role as pro-social bystanders to effect change and bring about a new normal of safety and respect.
