LEO DOULTON

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...

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...

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...

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:...

The King of Saving Cats Earlier this week, I had an excellent time at the Interactive Experience Network Huddle listening to Owen...

Introduction I am writing having spent a lovely afternoon workshopping an experiment I’ve had in mind for a while [thank you to everyone...

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...

While I’ve seen light-hearted and schlocky interactive theatre, I’ve never seen something that I’d class as comedy-comedy. Mockery of...

CW: Description violence (operatic/Batman-level), blood transfusion Across the years, as someone in the circle of the excellent Chloe...

The short version of this is: directing Shakespeare is much like directing opera. Both times, the text comes with certain ideas that are...

It’s Christmas, and time for arguments about whether Baby, It’s Cold Outside is something an enlightened culture ought to listen to. To...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A while ago, I was on an interactive theatre training course which mentioned that many mechanics (i.e. ways the audience can influence...

So, London boutique immersive theatre now has a second space to join the much-loved Colab Tavern: the Parabolic Crypt. Both are amazing...