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1. 1. 24:7 Theatre Festival: The lowdown

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 19 July 2007 A FEW years ago David Slack contacted me in my official capacity here at the M.E.N.

2. 2. Hit festival looks to a big future...

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 21 January 2005 LAST year was a remarkable one for David Slack and Amanda Hennessy, the co-founders and coordinators of the 24:7 Theatre Festival. The festival, designed to showcase new local writing in a variety of "non-theatre"-style venues, was first announced on January 27, with scripts submitted by March and the successful applicants announced in May.

3. 3. 24:7 - The French Lectures @ The Late Room

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 25 July 2005 AFTER its Manchester Evening News Theatre Award-winning debut last year, the ground-breaking 24:7 Theatre Festival is back in town, offering no less than 105 performances of 21 new plays - none of them longer than an hour - in five non-theatre venues over a week.

4. 4. Detox Mansion, A Woman Of Uncertain Age, Brief Encounters @ 24:7

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 26 July 2004 MANCHESTER and Salford's exhilarating new theatre festival, 24:7, is the brainchild of David Slack and Amanda Hennessy, who were inspired by a visit to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. To judge by the three productions I was able to see over the weekend, artistically it's a great success.

5. 5. Fringe-style festival to freshen up summer

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 10 June 2004 MANCHESTER plays host to a genuinely exciting new theatre festival this summer.

6. 6. Moving Pictures @ Midland Hotel

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 27 July 2005 IT’S not difficult to see why Cathy Crabb’s comedy drama, presented as part of the groundbreaking 24:7 Theatre Festival, has already scored awards at both Buxton Fringe Festival and Studio Salford.

7. 7. Peribanez comes to Salford

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 06 August 2004 CONGRATULATIONS are very much in order to the organisers of the excitingly ambitious 24:7 theatre festival. In fact, no sooner had they finished this year's festival, when they were given the chance to promote a one-off touring performance of Peribanez, by Lope de Vega.

8. 8. Seven days of fringe benefits

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 24 June 2005 AFTER a successful launch last year, Manchester's second ever 24:7 fringe theatre festival comes to a close this weekend.

9. 9. 2007's theatre highs and lows

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 December 2007 THE M.E.N. Theatre Awards have been and gone but it is a good time to reflect on my personal theatre-going year.

10. 10. M.E.N. Theatre Awards: The winners

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 06 December 2007 FROM classic heroes to blockbusting musicals, and an unforgettable appearance from an animated monkey at the first Manchester International Festival, the past year has been a memorable one for theatre in the north west.

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