Bottom Dog Theatre Company

04/11/2026

A message from Myles Breen to all our friends POLISH ARTS FESTIVAL

Don’t forget our rehearsed reading of The Emigrants by acclaimed Polish playwright Sławomir Mrożek, this Sunday No. 1 Pery Square Hotel & Spa at 8pm

Note: Our reading is an English translation.

Tickets available to reserve on Eventbrite.

03/11/2026

🇵🇱 THIS SUNDAY - A VERY SPECIAL EVENING OF THEATRE!

We’re delighted to join forces with the Polish Arts Festival for the next instalment of Bottom Dog Theatre Company’s Four Dangerous Plays, and we’d love you to join us!

🎭 THE EMIGRANTS
By Sławomir Mrożek
Directed by Kamila Dydyna

Two men, far from home, sharing a basement on New Year’s Eve. Different backgrounds, different dreams, and very different ideas about freedom.

Darkly funny, moving and sharply observed, The Emigrants explores questions of identity, belonging and the search for a better life. Themes that resonate across cultures and communities, perhaps now more than ever.

We’re especially delighted to welcome Kamila Dydyna, an IFTA-nominated, award-winning Polish filmmaker and actress, to direct this reading, bringing together wonderful artists for a special collaboration between our two theatrical communities.

Whether you’re a regular at our readings, part of Limerick’s Polish community, a lover of good theatre or simply curious to experience something different, we’d love to see you there.

📍 No. 1 Pery Square, Limerick
📅 Sunday 8 November | 8pm

🎟️ FREE TO BOOK - PAY WHAT YOU CAN ON THE NIGHT

Seats are limited, and booking is essential. You can now reserve directly through our Eventbrite page:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/2003462820227?aff=oddtdtcreator

Come along, bring a friend, and help us celebrate the wonderful creative connections that make Limerick’s arts community so special.

Join Bottom Dog for four dangerous plays this Autumn, Sundays at 8pm at No. 1 Pery Square. Pay What You Can donations but booking essential.

30/10/2026

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO - POSTPONED

Due to unforeseen circumstances, our reading this Sunday, 1 November, has been postponed.

All existing reservations will be honoured, and we’ll be in touch with everyone who booked about the revised arrangements. Thank you for your understanding, and apologies for any inconvenience.

Meanwhile, bookings are open for THE EMIGRANTS on Sunday 8 November at 8pm No. 1 Pery Square Hotel & Spa presented as part of the city’s wonderful POLISH ARTS FESTIVAL

Reserve your place on Eventbrite here:

This is the link

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/2003462820227

Thanks as always for supporting Bottom Dog Theatre and live theatre in Limerick. ❤️ 🎭

A rehearsed reading of Mrożek’s Emigrants, a darkly witty exploration of migration, identity, alienation and the search for freedom.

27/10/2026

What a super venue they have here Jerry Flannery's Bar at 1314. We had our fundraising table quiz here for the first time this year, so it’s nice to be here in the audience for the young theatre makers Goose Chase Theatre night of spooky plays.

26/10/2026

Next up in Bottom Dog Theatre’s FOUR DANGEROUS PLAYS is
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by Beaumarchais,
in a new version by Michael West,
directed by Myles Breen

A wickedly funny comedy of desire, deception and class, where the servants are more than a match for their masters!

This Sunday No. 1 Pery Square Hotel & Spa at 8 sharp.

Pay What You Can but we reckon booking is gonna be essential. Link below.

We’ve only two readings left, so if you truly love theatre then get yourself a seat.



https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/2003462820227

26/10/2026

Tonight was not an easy play for anyone. The actors. The director. The audience.

But then again you don’t do Four Dangerous Plays to have people running in out of bedrooms making outrageous puns.

Really proud of what everyone did tonight.

In an evening where it felt genuinely shocking to our loyal audience to have a baby stoned in a pram, and realise that thankfully it’s just theatre and not the reality of life in Palestine and beyond? While having such a young cast - some debuting with Bottom Dog - do so damn well?

Job done. 58 plays later, we have always believed theatre is just as valuable as when it creates a conversation as it does when it makes you laugh.

Was worried at half time we might lose some audience.

Didn’t. Lose. A. Single. One.

Thanks folks. Thanks for loving theatre and thinking outside the box.

25/10/2026

It’s not too late to grab some Sunday night theatre with Bottom Dog this evening!

Seats will be available at the door for tonight’s second of Four Dangerous Plays in rehearsed readings - SAVED by Edward Bond at 8pm No. 1 Pery Square Hotel & Spa

Whatever you’d like to donate at the door is more than enough.

A dark but vital play directed by Cáit Moloney.

22/10/2026

Calling all current and ex members of Limerick Youth Theatre! We are looking for young actors for our series of rehearsed readings 4 Dangerous Plays. To apply you must be over 18, and based in Limerick. We start rehearsing the play on the Sunday at 10am, then later that evening we perform the play with scripts in hand at 8pm in No. 1 Pery Square Hotel. If interested please email short bio plus photo to [email protected].

19/10/2026

After the overwhelming success of last night’s The Plough and the Stars, we're delighted to announce that booking is now OPEN for our next two of our FOUR DANGEROUS PLAYS!

🎭 THIS SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER
SAVED by Edward Bond
Directed by Cáit Moloney

🎭 SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by Pierre Beaumarchais
Translated by Michael West
Directed by Myles Breen

Both at 8pm at No. 1 Pery Square, Limerick.

As always, admission is PAY WHAT YOU CAN (cash please), but booking is essential as places are limited.

🎟️ Book both readings here:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/2003462820227

Our fourth and final reading, The Emigrants by Sławomir Mrożek, directed by Kamila Dydyna, takes place on Sunday 8 November as part of the Polish Arts Festival, with bookings available separately through the festival.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last night and helped make it such a special evening. Here's to the next three!

Join Bottom Dog for four dangerous plays this Autumn, Sundays at 8pm at No. 1 Pery Square. Pay What You Can donations but booking essential.

19/10/2026

We have been doing rehearsed readings every year since 2009.

Tonight our very first director Paul Meade came back for our 57th since our first, and directed an incredible cast.

It just happened to be The Plough and the Stars - one of the greatest Irish plays ever written and 100 years when first debuted Abbey Theatre

Never not been blown away what great casting and an iconic script can achieve in a day’s work.

Honestly sat in awe of artists, and a standing ovation for a team effort to a gorgeous audience No. 1 Pery Square Hotel & Spa

We didn’t have many seats to spare, but wow if you weren’t there you missed something special.

Four Dangerous Plays continue next Sunday.