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The Bookishness of Terry Pratchett: Problems of Adaptation
An ongoing dream of mine is to adapt a Terry Pratchett book into an opera. Because I love opera (with caveats) and I love Terry Pratchett...
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leodoulton
- Aug 13, 2023
- 7 min
Can I Be An Authoritarian?: Judging Sensitivity In Interactive Theatre
I’ve recently had reason to think about various possible issues of taste in interactive immersive theatre, in particular around areas...
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leodoulton
- Jul 30, 2023
- 11 min
You Can’t Shoot The Audience: Interacting, Immersively, with the Tragedy of War
Of London’s interactive immersive output, I’d say a solid 20-30% is themed around war. Usually by setting it in World War Two; a popular...
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leodoulton
- Jul 23, 2023
- 12 min
Toilet Trips In The Burnt City
Or: some thoughts and reflections on my first time at a Punchdrunk show. This blog is unusually indebted to those people I discussed the...
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leodoulton
- Jul 13, 2023
- 4 min
Six Blogs From Away
While away for L’elisir d’amore with Longborough, I thought of various things that I’d normally flesh out into a whole blog. However,...
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leodoulton
- May 9, 2023
- 3 min
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
- Apr 19, 2023
- 5 min
The Least We Can Possibly Do
This starts with me. But I unlocked the door via Le Guin. Le Guin In a passage about the rise of interactive adaptations of classic...
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leodoulton
- Apr 16, 2023
- 5 min
Free Choices, Free Goals, Ending Goals: Changing the Win Condition In Interactive Theatre
Beginnings While tearing out pages of my To-Do List (much of which had been done since the latest edition began in October 2021) I found...
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leodoulton
- Mar 29, 2023
- 4 min
LARP as score
An analogy I see pop up in a certain amount of literature about game-performance from LARPs to interactive theatre is the...
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leodoulton
- Mar 21, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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 4, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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 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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