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12 Shows: A Project From 2023
At the end of 2022, I wrote A Plan For 2023. In it, I made a simple statement: that I had lost my youthful habit of regular experimental...
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leodoulton
Dec 31, 20232 min read
A Final Experiment: Gentle Livestreams
I realised that I did not have time to do what I had hoped for in my final experiment of the 12 Shows sequence: a livestreamed one-person...
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leodoulton
Dec 30, 20234 min read
For The Moon: A Rite Of Midwinter About (Without) Belief
There is a feature of Church of England choirs that many people do not realise: They are professionals. They are not singing out of...
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leodoulton
Dec 30, 20233 min read
Unobserved, Uninvited: Unwanted Theatre
A strand in 12 Shows has been audience-performance relationships: what if the audience is unaware that they’re seeing theatre? What if...
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leodoulton
Dec 16, 20233 min read
Declaration of Performance
A few days ago, I did one of my 12 Shows experiments. Not least, we’re running low on days with several shows left to do. I had noted the...
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leodoulton
Nov 25, 20234 min read
Froth: A Celebration OR Perspectives On Pining Princes & Pouting Princesses
I have just finished the playtest for the show given the placeholder name Pining Princes & Pouting Princesses. Excellent. More or less...
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leodoulton
Oct 28, 20232 min read
A Scary Place Existed
I have yet to do my post-show reflection blog for A Scary Place To Exist (or, indeed, to decide whether or not to count is as one of my...
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leodoulton
Oct 15, 20231 min read
A Scary Blog To Exist
This week, I’ll be teaming up with Vic Sautter to present A Scary Place To Exist, featuring Tom Black. It’s essentially a show built to...
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leodoulton
Oct 15, 20233 min read
Epic Reading: Getting The Poem Right
A friend of mine, in response to some demurring, modest comment I made, pointed out that my hobby of reading epic poems (in translation)...
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leodoulton
Aug 7, 20231 min read
Thank You For Coming To Leo Doulton’s Birthday Funeral
I have, as a point of archiving, been recording notes on 12 Shows as each one is presented. But while it was another informative and...
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leodoulton
May 27, 20231 min read
Paradise Craved: How You Fall
Today, I playtested Paradise Craved [previously mentioned here], a rather nerve-wrackingly intimate piece of game theatre. I will not...
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leodoulton
May 9, 20233 min read
Performing Invisibly; Invisible Performance
I write within the hour of completing the third of my 12 Shows goal for 2023. Now I have attempted Sit In Silence, See What Happens. Very...
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leodoulton
Mar 14, 20235 min read
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
Jan 28, 20234 min read
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, 20222 min read
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 22, 20221 min read
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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