The Living Room Theatre set to debut 'I Love Todd Sampson' play in Sydney on February 28
The Living Room Theatre has today announced the first release of tickets to its latest production I Love Todd Sampson opening in Sydney on 28 February 2013 at Pier 2/3 for 10 live and unforgettable performances. I Love Todd Sampson is an Australian first, multi-disciplinary theatre work integrating architecture, music, light and performance. The work encompasses the creative involvement of nine architectural teams, a jazz composer, sound designer, installation artist and performers.
The central character to the story is an increasingly 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). The reassuring
and charming voice of the Canadian-born ad-man permeates the
performance, as Laura constructs a new reality piecing together
fragments of Sampson's life until she discovers him bathing in her tub.
An experiential performance, the audience physically follows Laura through the set as her "friends" draw her back to the relative safety of their imagined world.
The setting for I Love Todd Sampson, Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay, was selected specifically for the project due to its historic beauty and disquieting nature, which becomes a metaphor for the lead character's state of mind. The audience travels through her reality across two floors of the immense and haunted space.
Written, directed and produced by the rare theatrical artist Michelle St.Anne, founder of The Living Room Theatre, I Love Todd Sampson is a sensory-rich play that deals with themes 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 framing 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 said.
I Love Todd Sampson runs for 90 minutes with no interval and will be showing at Pier 2/3, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, every day from Thursday 28 February until Saturday 9 March 2013 at 7.30pm. Matinee performances will be shown on Sunday 3rd and 10th March at 4pm.
Tickets are $50/$35 and can be purchased online at Moshtix.
More details can be found on The Living Room Theatre website.
An experiential performance, the audience physically follows Laura through the set as her "friends" draw her back to the relative safety of their imagined world.
The setting for I Love Todd Sampson, Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay, was selected specifically for the project due to its historic beauty and disquieting nature, which becomes a metaphor for the lead character's state of mind. The audience travels through her reality across two floors of the immense and haunted space.
Written, directed and produced by the rare theatrical artist Michelle St.Anne, founder of The Living Room Theatre, I Love Todd Sampson is a sensory-rich play that deals with themes 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 framing 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 said.
I Love Todd Sampson runs for 90 minutes with no interval and will be showing at Pier 2/3, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, every day from Thursday 28 February until Saturday 9 March 2013 at 7.30pm. Matinee performances will be shown on Sunday 3rd and 10th March at 4pm.
Tickets are $50/$35 and can be purchased online at Moshtix.
More details can be found on The Living Room Theatre website.
And presumably the sequel is 'I hate Todd Sampson'.
Did Todd write this?
Casting suggestions for Todd?
Hugh Jackman.
Geoffrey Rush.
Daniel Day Lewis
Ray Meagher
I don't know about you, but I rather stick needles in my eyes that spent one cent of my hard earned cash watching a show about a loser obsessed with a Television Ad man.
Laura, you really need to get a grip.
having been forced to listen to todd speak at Spikes the other year about him climbing Mt Everest, sorry about creativity, I can safely make a guess who Todd Sampson loves.
Rare? Seriously. What. The. F.
In fairness to Todd, he's had nothing to do with this. It's some obsessed fans that created this production about him. I guess he could have stopped them from doing it and using his name and voice but why bother.
Well I'd give him one.
Holy Crap! What have you been reduced to? You pay teachers a pittance and beatify advertising folk. I wished I'd never created y'all.
He is probably receiving royalties for something. He'll probably get a storm named after him.
I didn't know Todd was in that Gotye film clip.
Oh, for the love of Todd!