Amanda Stoodley
Manchester Lines
Author: Amanda Stoodley
Performance space: Number One First Street
Theatre company/company produced for: Manchester Library Theatre Company
Month & year of original production: 12th June - 7th July 2012
Description of items intended for exhibition:
Model
Project description:
Jackie Kay's Manchester Lines is a story about seven characters in search of themselves, who all connect through a Lost Property Office, where they meet the Keeper of Lost Things (and souls). The lines referred to in the production are the city's arterial tram and train networks and also the strands that connect our day-to-day encounters, whether through chance or design.
The site was the empty fifth floor of a large, new office block in Manchester city centre. Audience members arrived in groups at the Lost & Found reception and then made their way along an 'underground' corridor which led to the Lost Property Office. There, they could look at and listen to the hundreds of items on the shelves, each with its own tale to tell, before taking a seat.
Artform:
Performance Design
Set Design
Costume Design
Installation
Designers:
Set designer: Amanda Stoodley
Costume designer: Amanda Stoodley
Lighting designer: Anna Barrett
Sound designer: Peter Rice
Director/choreographer: Wils Wilson
Other creative collaborators: Jackie Kay - Writer; Errollyn Wallen - Composer
Image gallery
MANCHESTER LINES
Number One First Street
Design - Amanda Stoodley
Photo - Sam Heath
MANCHESTER LINES
Model and Design - Amanda Stoodley
Corridor photo - Sam Heath
MANCHESTER LINES
Design - Amanda Stoodley
Photo - Sam Heath
MANCHESTER LINES
Design - Amanda Stoodley
Photo - Sam Heath
MANCHESTER LINES
Design - Amanda Stoodley
Photo - Sam Heath
MANCHESTER LINES
Design - Amanda Stoodley
Photo - Sam Heath