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What’s the most welcome you’ve ever felt in an interactive show? It’s a big question, and partly depends on the person, and partly on the...
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leodoulton
- Aug 24
- 3 min
Monsters, servants, and chancers: the characters of Come Bargain
Almost any good show relies on its characters. More particularly, they rely on characters in relationship with each other. In interactive...
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leodoulton
- Aug 10
- 3 min
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 2
- 2 min
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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leodoulton
- Feb 13
- 5 min
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
- Feb 3
- 1 min
Situation-Room Character Non-Development: The Tiresome and the Fun
A brief thought after a flash of clarity, drawing on my many, many previous blogs on interactive immersive theatre. Situation-room...
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leodoulton
- Jan 17
- 6 min
LARP vs. Interactive Theatre: A Summary
OR: Forgive me, for I have become a LARPer. I have just spent a joyous weekend at The Smoke: a festival of Live Action Role-Playing...
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leodoulton
- Jan 17
- 6 min
A Stranger At The Smoke: Some Thoughts
I went to The Smoke (a LARP festival in London) for the first time last weekend, had a great time, and wanted to reflect a little bit....
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leodoulton
- Jan 10
- 2 min
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 1
- 7 min
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 8, 2023
- 5 min
In Extremis: Didacticism in Interactive Theatre
I have noticed many interactive theatre makers do not wish to lecture their audiences. This is an impulse I often share. However, in the...
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leodoulton
- Dec 7, 2023
- 3 min
What Is Interactive Theatre About?
Bizarrely, this blog was written and not published, and in the intervening space of time one of the core conclusions has become a show in...
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leodoulton
- Dec 7, 2023
- 7 min
Truffle Hunting: An Approach to Interactive Theatre
There might be an overarching narrative, beautiful characters, and ways to influence both, but you’re not here for that. You’ve spent the...
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leodoulton
- Dec 4, 2023
- 1 min
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...
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leodoulton
- Nov 26, 2023
- 4 min
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
- Nov 6, 2023
- 2 min
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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leodoulton
- Nov 6, 2023
- 3 min
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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leodoulton
- Nov 6, 2023
- 2 min
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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leodoulton
- Nov 6, 2023
- 1 min
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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leodoulton
- Nov 6, 2023
- 2 min
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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