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Bargain, worship, and murder: what’s the difference between the Come Bargain trilogy shows?

leodoulton

Aug 103 min read

Bargain, worship, and murder: what’s the difference between the Come Bargain trilogy shows?

There are those who, bizarrely, cannot see inside my mind to know what happens in each part of the Come Bargain trilogy. So I might as...

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leodoulton

Aug 22 min read

Why Crowdfund Uncanny Things?

Amid everything else in the world, I (and the Virtually Opera team) have just started crowdfunding for Come Bargain With Uncanny...

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Enduring The Ring: Bodies During The Ring Cycle

leodoulton

Jun 162 min read

Enduring The Ring: Bodies During The Ring Cycle

I have just attended my first Ring Cycle, assisting on Amy Lane’s Die Walküre. It was an extraordinary experience, with 14.5 hours of...

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Notes towards The Ring Cycle as a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

leodoulton

Jun 148 min read

Notes towards The Ring Cycle as a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

This is, perhaps, my greatest (only) contribution to the field of Wagner studies. The essential question of: Could you run a D&D campaign...

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leodoulton

Feb 135 min read

Notes From The Dreamlands

I am, at some point, going to stop being astonished that I can make a show and have people like it. Apparently, I make experiments that...

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leodoulton

Jan 102 min read

Upcoming In 2024

Behold, there are three separate shows of mine coming up that you can book for! February Into The Dreamlands. An interactive immersive...

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leodoulton

Jan 17 min read

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 21, 20234 min read

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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Do less, but better: a pseudo-directorial philosophy

leodoulton

Dec 12, 20231 min read

Do less, but better: a pseudo-directorial philosophy

I am preparing some workshops and training sessions, and thought I’d try to encapsulate some of my ideas about directing. This follows...

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Not Lying Or Pretending: What Is Acting (Not)?

leodoulton

Dec 3, 20233 min read

Not Lying Or Pretending: What Is Acting (Not)?

A comment that appears when those in the acting profession give evidence to public enquiries, trials, and other things is “they are an...

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leodoulton

Dec 1, 20233 min read

Reasons It’s Hard To Direct [X]

I recently worked on a tranche of applications, which included a couple of pieces I read through and immediately thought “this is...

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Coming To Paradise: Eden, and walking out of it

leodoulton

Nov 6, 20232 min read

Coming To Paradise: Eden, and walking out of it

You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. I am sad to be leaving my residency behind. While I’ll have an ongoing relationship...

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Coming To Paradise: Hell, otherwise known as playtesting

leodoulton

Nov 6, 20233 min read

Coming To Paradise: Hell, otherwise known as playtesting

You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. I had not expected to get so far with Paradise Craved that its sharings would...

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Coming To Paradise: Heaven and music as a means of interaction

leodoulton

Nov 6, 20232 min read

Coming To Paradise: Heaven and music as a means of interaction

You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. A motif in my recent interactive work has been pushing it beyond the bourgeois modes...

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Coming To Paradise: Gulf, and what we cannot know

leodoulton

Nov 6, 20231 min read

Coming To Paradise: Gulf, and what we cannot know

You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. During Paradise Craved, the audience are occasionally plunged into darkness; a space...

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Coming To Paradise: Here, and how we got here

leodoulton

Nov 6, 20232 min read

Coming To Paradise: Here, and how we got here

I’m writing this just a few days after finishing a Theatre Deli London Classic Residency developing Paradise Craved, a show about a...

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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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I’ve been selected for a residency! (Fancy dropping by?)

leodoulton

Oct 18, 20232 min read

I’ve been selected for a residency! (Fancy dropping by?)

I am delighted to say that I’ve been selected for one of Theatre Deli’s London Classic Residencies. I’ll be spending two weeks developing...

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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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