The work of Limerick's Island Theatre Company, founded in 1988, has increasingly focused on local people and events. Founder member Mike Finn, a company stalwart as both actor and playwright, continues this trend with his script for its new production, provocatively named Pigtown. The title does not have the pejorative connotations out-of-towners might attach to it, being actually a nickname for the city's reputation as a bacon exporter. For this show, the Belltable theatre has had its seating removed, and audiences perambulate around the space to view eight separate staging areas. Stories of Limerick ranging over 100 years are enacted, and rogues and eccentrics abound in this home-town celebration with a difference. Brendan Conroy (above) plays Tommy Clohessy in the production.