Exciting Writing Projects by Paddy Gormley

Paddy Gormley's writing projects include plays, poetry, philosophy, radio-talks and after-dinner speaking.

This section of the website is being developed to include links to all the websites faturing PG's work. Only a few links (at the head of the list) are available at present. Further links will be added during June 2005.

Twenty-Twenty
(www.twenty-twenty.info)
A stage play with cinematic potential.

Website includes click-to-play showreels.

Click on the image below for details of Paddy Gormley's book: Language with Altitude.

Much of Paddy Gormley's writing is designed to teach the craft of writing. Such projects are featured in the Teaching Projects section of this website and are not duplicated here. Click on the image below for further details.

Poet's Day poetsday.info A sitcom for radio Website features excerpts from a performed reading with full sound effects and live audience appreciation.
Riverbank Reverie www.riverbankreverie.info A radio adaptation of The Wind in the Willows in twelve half-hour episodes, featuring biographical details from the life of Kenneth Grahame. Website includes click-to-play audio excerpts from a live reading and audience discussion.
The Wold Wide Web www.woldwide.co.uk A radio play with potential for development as an educational project. Website includes click-to-play audio excerpts.
Hamlet: Tragedy of a Fat Man www.tiltyardtheatre.com A one man show for Simon Fisher-Becker, produced at London's Etcetera Theatre in 2002 with a subsequent UK tour. Website includes click-to-play showreels.
Laconic Lovers www.laconiclovers.info A series of short plays for radio, all two-handers, in which neither character is allowed to say more than three words before the other character speaks again. Website includes a radio production of one of the plays, 3 2 1 Bang, in Serbian with English subtitles.
The Library PG's chapter for a recent biopictography of his father, also called Paddy Gormley, in which the younger Paddy Gormley reflects on their relationship and the late PG's antiquarian book collection. Web page includes downloadable audio recording.

Watch this space for links to further projects including: Two Molière adaptations for theatre: Misanthrope II (based on Le Misanthrope) and Jourdain (based on Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme). Rats Away, a parable for performance by children, based on the Pied Piper story, with music by Barbara Gormley. Choral settings of PG's poetry and translations (including Schiller's Ode to Joy) by Barbara Gormley. In His Own Image, a 45 minute theatre piece exploring the life of Fr. Rolfe, a.k.a. Baron Corvo. A.U.O.P.I.T., a radio sitcom idea which PG is developing in collaboration with Will Hames. Mouse Mate, a short story in verse. Old Possum's Book of Fat Cats, amusing and thought-provoking after-dinner speeches. Valiant Be, PG's philosophical advice to his sons at their coming of age: A Pilgrim's Progress for the 21st Century.