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I Like Reading (Or: Caveating The Last Blog)
The other day I wrote about two well-formatted sides of A4 being an optimal amount of information for a fun experience of a piece of...
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leodoulton
- Mar 19
- 8 min
2 Sides of A4: The Optimal Length (For Interactive Theatre Knowledge)
Update: I've had some further thoughts on why this is wrong. TL;DR: it’s two well-formatted A4 pages for information that’s regularly...
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leodoulton
- Mar 15
- 3 min
Finding The Margins: Looking At Interactive Theatre Through LARP & labour
TL;DR: Interactive Theatre is LARP with the burden on the organisers. Most definitions of LARP vs. interactive theatre I know of come...
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leodoulton
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Leo: A Plug
Future Leo, here’s your one-minute pitch next time you have to give one: I’m Leo, a writer, director, game designer and performer working...
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leodoulton
- Mar 14
- 5 min
Horizontal Mechanics, 12-Handed Monopoly, and Nothing Is Ever New
I’ve recently had the pleasure of playtesting 12-Handed Monopoly: A LARP of Capital, Revolution, and Blatant Theft, the second part of my...
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leodoulton
- Mar 4
- 6 min
Being and Doing: Default Modes of Play
I often start these by saying I think it will be brief.* But I have learnt. It might be brief. The core thought here is identifying a...
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leodoulton
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Outside The Dungeon: Some Possible Sources For New Kinds Of Mechanic
What would interactive theatre look like if we’d never played The Dragon Game? This is a theme that’s been touched on here before:...
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leodoulton
- Feb 22
- 5 min
The Sleeping Protagonist
The King of Saving Cats Earlier this week, I had an excellent time at the Interactive Experience Network Huddle listening to Owen...
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leodoulton
- Feb 4
- 5 min
Haha-Narrative Dissonance: A Challenge For Interactive Comedy
Introduction I am writing having spent a lovely afternoon workshopping an experiment I’ve had in mind for a while [thank you to everyone...
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leodoulton
- Jan 28
- 4 min
Show For A Sheep
The first of a sequence of projects I’m calling ’12 Shows’ has been done. It is not, as originally advertised, ‘Show For A Cow’, because...
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leodoulton
- Dec 31, 2022
- 2 min
A Plan For 2023
I have got out of a habit I had when younger: small shows at the edge of my practice in a throw-away manner. That was partly because...
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leodoulton
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
Introductory Translation And Analysis Via Queen-Gazing Cats
There is a poem many of you will be familiar with: Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been? I’ve been up to London to visit the Queen....
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leodoulton
- Dec 24, 2022
- 2 min
Daily Blogging: A Reflection
I am very much a writer/director. I’m not a critic. So I’m going to quietly reflect on blogging every advent calendar day, since it seems...
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leodoulton
- Dec 24, 2022
- 5 min
Notes Towards A Steampunk La Bohème
If I have a style (which, alas, I increasingly do as I stagnate away from being a young artist, and get too few opportunities to...
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leodoulton
- Dec 24, 2022
- 4 min
Comedy, Absurdism, and Farce for Interactive Theatre
While I’ve seen light-hearted and schlocky interactive theatre, I’ve never seen something that I’d class as comedy-comedy. Mockery of...
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leodoulton
- Dec 23, 2022
- 3 min
Narratives About Narrative: A Challenge For Arts Coverage
Amid the inescapable World Cup coverage recently, I was often reminded of this XKCD comic: While an over-simplification, it does...
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leodoulton
- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
12-Handed Monopoly: A LARP of capitalism, revolution, and blatant theft
I haven’t always been a game designer, or creator of interactive experiences. But when I was a child, there was a promise on a box I’d...
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leodoulton
- Dec 21, 2022
- 4 min
In Resentment Of Functionality
I would like to write in resentment of functionality, and tying things to reality. My mind’s been twisted by Twitter, so I’m going to...
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leodoulton
- Dec 20, 2022
- 4 min
Acting Scandalous
A quiet note to theatrical creators, after a few shows I’ve seen. A thought that occurs to me while my mouth is filled… With a crunchie...
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leodoulton
- Dec 19, 2022
- 3 min
Why You Should Let Me Direct Your Classic Opera
I know I whinge about the operatic canon and tradition a lot, but I’m quite good at my job. So I’d like to try and explain why I think...
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