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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...
leodoulton
Nov 25, 20234 min read


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...
leodoulton
Nov 6, 20232 min read


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...
leodoulton
Nov 6, 20233 min read


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...
leodoulton
Nov 6, 20232 min read


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...
leodoulton
Nov 6, 20231 min read


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...
leodoulton
Nov 6, 20232 min read


A Scary Place Existed
I have yet to do my post-show reflection blog for A Scary Place To Exist (or, indeed, to decide whether or not to count is as one of my...
leodoulton
Oct 28, 20232 min read


I’ve been selected for a residency! (Fancy dropping by?)
I am delighted to say that I’ve been selected for one of Theatre Deli’s London Classic Residencies. I’ll be spending two weeks developing...
leodoulton
Oct 18, 20232 min read


A Scary Blog To Exist
This week, I’ll be teaming up with Vic Sautter to present A Scary Place To Exist, featuring Tom Black. It’s essentially a show built to...
leodoulton
Oct 15, 20231 min read


Two Canon Sins
I have been examining my imagined dramaturgical structure for interactive immersive theatre of late, and accumulating a pile of concepts,...
leodoulton
Oct 1, 20235 min read


Please Hire Me
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...
leodoulton
Sep 18, 20231 min read


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...
leodoulton
Aug 13, 20237 min read


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...
leodoulton
Aug 7, 20231 min read


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...
leodoulton
Jul 30, 202311 min read


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...
leodoulton
Jul 23, 202312 min read


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...
leodoulton
May 27, 20231 min read


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...
leodoulton
Apr 19, 20235 min read


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


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...
leodoulton
Mar 29, 20234 min read


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...
leodoulton
Mar 21, 20231 min read
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