Don Wycherley delivers an incandescent performance in this one-man play that retells the story of Paddy Armstrong and the Guildford Four.
Paddy: The Life & Times of Paddy Armstrong review – Don Wycherley is incandescent in this journey from disaster to redemption Theatre : Play is a devastating retelling of the injustice suffered by Armstrong and the Guildford FourAfter the Provisional IRA bombed a pub in the Surrey town of Guildford, in 1974, English police rounded up and then beat and brutalised Armstrong and the others.
After several days they obtained a set of false confessions – and before long arrested and then imprisoned another group of innocent citizens, the Maguire Seven, including Conlon’s father, Giuseppe, who subsequently died in prison. At the time of his incarceration, in 1975, Paddy Armstrong was the oldest of the Guildford Four. He was 25. Jim Sheridan’s film In the Name of the Father raised the four’s profile globally, but the details of Armstrong’s personal experience were not common knowledge until the publication of his acclaimed memoir, Life After Life, in 2017. He wrote it with Mary-Elaine Tynan, a teacher, journalist and documentarymaker. Profoundly affected by Armstrong’s story, she has now taken on the role of producer and director of this sold-out stage adaptation, which is about to go on tour. In the prologue to Life After Life, Armstrong observes that, so incredible were the events that befell him, it sometimes feels as though “I’m remembering someone else’s life”. This idea is given a poetic twist throughout this one-man play, as its central character’s memory is fading, his recall declining: Armstrong remembers the moments of his life out of joint, each narrative episode linked not by chronology but by the intensity of its feelin
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