Cultural Shenanigans

Manchester’s marvellous 24:7 Theatre Festival has announced the plays selected for its 10th anniversary programme, which takes place 19-26 July. The fringe theatre festival has already 157 plays and helped kickstart the careers of 117 writers and over 500 creatives, with more than 30,000 tickets sold in its first nine years. The 2013 festival is [...]

I had such good intentions with Manchester’s celebration of new fringe theatre, 24:7 Theatre Festival. I was going to fit 10 plays into three days, and blog reviews of them all here at Cultural Shenanigans. And I did fit all ten plays into three days, I had blogged four of them and then, on the last [...]

  Loaded, directed by Martin Jameson and presented by Working Progress Theatre Company at 24:7 Theatre Festival, is the story of 15 year old Chantelle. Struggling at school and home, Chantelle finds a way out through her local pupil referral unit and with a wannabe gangster boyfriend, Dylan. Set in West Gorton, the place, the [...]

 In the overall programme of Manchester’s 24:7 Theatre Festival, The Legend of the Ghost Shark is a welcome addition. Written by Anthony Morgan and directed by Charlie Mortimer, the play is the only show of the festival’s ten which is billed as an out-and-out comedy. Jason is a food critic who’s been commissioned to write a story, [...]

A northern city in the 1970s. A lot of fires are claiming a lot of lives. Firestarter, by Dave Windass, and presented by Ensemble 52 gives the audience a glimpse into the world of the arsonist, Peter, and some of the lives he affects. A full house and the July heat have, somewhat aptly, turned [...]