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Really, the title says it. But with Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 ending (where I am marketing director), I’d like to remind...
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leodoulton
- Aug 13
- 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
- Aug 7
- 1 min
Thank You For Coming To Leo Doulton’s Birthday Funeral
I have, as a point of archiving, been recording notes on 12 Shows as each one is presented. But while it was another informative and...
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leodoulton
- Jul 30
- 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
- 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
- May 27
- 1 min
Paradise Craved: How You Fall
Today, I playtested Paradise Craved [previously mentioned here], a rather nerve-wrackingly intimate piece of game theatre. I will not...
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leodoulton
- Apr 19
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 14
- 5 min
Horizontal Mechanics, 12-Handed Monopoly, and Nothing Is Ever New
I’ve recently had the pleasure of playtesting 12-Handed Monopoly: A LARP of Capital, Revolution, and Blatant Theft, the second part of my...
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leodoulton
- Mar 4
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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leodoulton
- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
12-Handed Monopoly: A LARP of capitalism, revolution, and blatant theft
I haven’t always been a game designer, or creator of interactive experiences. But when I was a child, there was a promise on a box I’d...
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leodoulton
- Dec 15, 2022
- 4 min
Imagined National Anthems
Perhaps the most fun I’ve ever had on a job is writing the national anthems for three fictional countries for Parabolic Theatre’s show We...
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