I Love Todd Sampson is Australia's first, multi-disciplinary theatre work integrating architecture, music, light and performance. The work encompasses the creative involvement of more than nine professional architectural teams including nine registered architects, three university architectural teams, jazz composers, sound designers, installation artists, choreographers and performers.

The central character to the story is an incessantly lonely, middle-aged woman named Laura, supported by the "friends" who live inside her. Laura's "friends" have manifested from paintings, furniture and walls to help her overcome traumatic childhood experiences, forming the anchors which ultimately bring her back from taking her life over the edge.

In search of a new comfort, Laura immerses herself in the life of Todd Sampson (CEO of Leo Burnett Australia, co-creator of the Earth Hour initiative and commentator on The Gruen Transfer and The Project).

The reassuring and charming voice of the Canadian-born ad-man is played throughout the performance, the sound of which consumes Laura as she pieces together fragments of his life to construct her relationship with him.  The experiential nature of the work has the audience physically following Laura through the set as her "friends" seek to bring her back from her perilous obsession with Todd Sampson.

The setting for I Love Todd Sampson, Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay, was selected specifically for this project due to its historic beauty and disquieting nature, which becomes a metaphor for the lead character's state of mind. The audience literally travels through her reality across two floors of this immense and haunted space.

Written, directed and performed by the talented Michelle St. Anne, founder of The Living Room Theatre, I Love Todd Sampson is a sensory-rich play that deals with the community issues of mental health and loneliness in an engaging and unexpected way.

"Our work gives a voice to those vulnerable in our community.  It's about faming the everyday into beautiful artistic works so we can allow others to see into this world through a less confronting platform.

"In I Love Todd Sampson, the audience becomes a part of the action - as they enter rooms to explore and discover images, atmospheric sounds and repeated moments.  And yes, Todd Sampson does know about it," St. Anne says.

I Love Todd Sampson runs for 90 minutes with no interval and will be showing at Pier 2/3, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay from every day from Thursday 28 February until Sunday 10 March 2012 at 7.30pm, and on Sundays 3rd and 10th March at 4pm.

More details can be found on The Living Room Theatre website - www.livingroomtheatre.org

About The Living Room Theatre

The Living Room Theatre is a not for profit performance company, committed to the continual deconstruction of traditional theatre boundaries, winner of the prestigious AbaF, Woodside Better Business Award - NSW/ACT, and were also recognised for Best Practice by the Australia Business Arts Foundation.

We create work to challenge and extend audiences experience and perception of theatre by making sensory oriented works that are beautiful to watch, to experience.

Through the disciplines of movement, installation, sound, film and text we inhabit space and deconstruct the narrative line to create a new platform to receive work.

The themes flow between beauty and suffering by exploring the subtext of everyday life.

Works by The Living Room Theatre include: I Love Todd Sampson, A Little Room, Man 40 Seeks Woman with Good Legs, The Intimacies of Women, Billie: a girl, a swing and underpants, Plez'her, Deadlines, Everybody Sing and Sleep. www.livingroomtheatre.org

Buy 6+ tickets for a discount. Call 1300 GET TIX (438 849) to purchase. 

As Pier 2/3 is a historic wooden floored building, please wear suitable shoes to the performance, we recommend no high heels.