8 Performance dates: 14th,15th,16th,17th Oct

21st,22nd,23rd,24th Oct

PADDY – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PADDY ARMSTRONG

After three sold-out runs we are delighted to welcome this multi award winning play back to The Viking.

The one-man play, which premiered in The Viking November 2024, was inspired by Paddy Armstrong’s memoir Life After Life, a Guildford Four Memoir and stars Don Wycherley in the title role.

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 moving, tender and often hilarious 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.

Paddy Armstrong is a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1975 he was falsely convicted of helping carry out the Guildford and Woolwich bombings, a conviction for which he spent 15 years in prison. Today, he lives in Clontarf, Dublin, with his wife and children. 

Written by Mary-Elaine Tynan, Don Wycherley & Niamh Gleeson
Starring Don Wycherley as Paddy
Presented by Wooden Bridge Productions
Directed by Mary-Elaine Tynan

Nightly at 8:00pm

No performance Sunday.     All seats €20

No latecomers admitted