Designer Amanda Stoodley has won the prestigious award for Best Design for the Library Theatre Company’s production of Jackie Kay’s Manchester Lines at the Theatrical Management Association / Theatre UK Awards.
Directed by site-specific specialist Wils Wilson, the production was staged on the fifth floor of an office block in Manchester’s First Street development, close to the site where the Library Theatre Company’s new home is scheduled to open in 2014.
Set in a lost property office, the production used thousands of items of lost property collected by Transport for London, who donated them to the Library Theatre Company on condition they were then donated to the Salvation Army.
A large number of crutches used in the set even found their way to a hospital in Chikankata in Zambia, where the Sale branch of the Salvation Army is working on a project with the local community.
“Manchester Lines was such an exciting, collaborative and wonderful journey and I feel incredibly proud to have won the award,” said Amanda. “It is a treat enough to do this job, but to receive recognition like this is very special. I was totally shocked and completely overwhelmed.”