Patrick Jones

Patrick Jones

Lucy Purrington

Poet and playwright.

Performed Work
Everything Must Go (Sherman Theatre, March 1999, with a tour of UK in 2000)

The Guerilla Tapestry performed at the opening of the Welsh Assembly ‘Voices Of A Nation’ concert, 1999

Unprotected Sex (Sherman Theatre October 2000)
The War is Dead 2003 (sorted productions)

The Sad Bells of Rhymney – Radio 4/BBC Wales commission to write new lyrics to Idris Davies’ poem the Bells of Rhymney performed by Mike Peters (The Alarm)

Are you surprised my blood is the same colour as yours? (The Life of David Kato) (Hay Festival 2012)

Revelation (2014)
Before I leave – National Theatre of Wales 2016

Community Work

Writing Projects in nursing homes, hospitals, prisons, mental health units, domestic violence shelters and refuges and schools and community centres . I have worked alongside and with Ty Hafan, The Samaritans, Velindre Hospital, Literature Wales, The Touch Trust, The Welsh Refugee Council, Mind Cymru and Alzheimer’s Society Cymru. Writer in Residence with The Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales (2020-22)