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FAST CARS: MANLY PRINCESS PLAY
There’s a concept in game design called Princess Play. Named after a common childhood game of pretending to be a princess, it can be...
leodoulton
Dec 4, 20231 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Sep 1, 20236 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Apr 16, 20235 min read
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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:...
leodoulton
Feb 24, 20233 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Feb 22, 20235 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Feb 4, 20235 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Dec 24, 20225 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Dec 24, 20224 min read
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La Commedia e’ Finita!: Two One-Act Batman Operas
CW: Description violence (operatic/Batman-level), blood transfusion Across the years, as someone in the circle of the excellent Chloe...
leodoulton
Dec 17, 20225 min read
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The Dance: Shakespeare, Opera, and Finding What Comes Next
The short version of this is: directing Shakespeare is much like directing opera. Both times, the text comes with certain ideas that are...
leodoulton
Dec 12, 20224 min read
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Baby, Don Giovanni’s Outside
It’s Christmas, and time for arguments about whether Baby, It’s Cold Outside is something an enlightened culture ought to listen to. To...
leodoulton
Dec 9, 20226 min read
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The Literary TTRPG
Within the indie TTRPG space, there is a common joke: that people have more TTRPGs than they will ever play, but keep buying more. That...
leodoulton
Dec 4, 20222 min read
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Eight Meanings of Tea
A while ago, I was in a post-blog conversation about rituals in interactive theatre and especially the idea of making a cup of tea as...
leodoulton
Jun 21, 20223 min read
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Playing With All Ages: Interactive Immersive Theatre For Mixed-Age Groups
Having been to a few mixed-age shows of late, I am having thoughts and erupting into Blog. By ‘mixed-age shows’, what I mean is shows...
leodoulton
Jun 16, 20227 min read
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Proletarian Play: Show Mechanics And Immersive Mecha
Last week (here: https://www.leodoulton.com/post/genre-as-onboarding) I mentioned that I wanted to write an article about this. And so I...
leodoulton
Jun 4, 20224 min read
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Randomness and Existential Immersion
A while ago, I was on an interactive theatre training course which mentioned that many mechanics (i.e. ways the audience can influence...
leodoulton
Apr 30, 20224 min read
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Wibbly-Wobbly Time-Travelling Spaces
So, London boutique immersive theatre now has a second space to join the much-loved Colab Tavern: the Parabolic Crypt. Both are amazing...
leodoulton
Mar 30, 20222 min read
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