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What Next For Come Bargain With Uncanny Things?
This is a question I have been getting a lot, since the immediate ‘next’ after each show is waiting for my hair to dry after removing an...
leodoulton
Nov 24, 20222 min read
How’s Come Bargain With Uncanny Things Going?
Pretty well, artistically. As with any show of this nature, I’ve learnt a lot just by doing it - how audiences respond to different...
leodoulton
Nov 22, 20222 min read
To The Victory Of Cake
After the first week of Come Bargain With Uncanny Things, I just wanted to write a short manifesto of a core concept. To the victory of...
leodoulton
Nov 20, 20221 min read
Onboarding As Journey
Last week, the excellent Chloe Mashiter wrote a blog about the audience journey into an interactive immersive show, which I’d recommend...
leodoulton
Nov 10, 20224 min read
Forming Interactive Ritual-Opera: What Might You Expect?
Last week I had the pleasure of some mentoring sessions with Chloe Mashiter and Tom Black to develop Come Bargain With Uncanny Things,...
leodoulton
Nov 2, 20222 min read
Coming To Come Bargain Strand 5: Things people have called me to compare me to uncanny things
This blog is part of a series on how I came to write Come Bargain With Uncanny Things (tickets available now!). If you want to read the...
leodoulton
Oct 23, 20221 min read
Coming To Come Bargain With Uncanny Things Strand 4: The Reading List Cometh
This blog is part of a series on how I came to write Come Bargain With Uncanny Things (tickets available now!). If you want to read the...
leodoulton
Oct 22, 20228 min read
Coming To Come Bargain With Uncanny Things Strand 3: No Hero, No Journey
This blog is part of a series on how I came to write Come Bargain With Uncanny Things (tickets available now!). If you want to read the...
leodoulton
Oct 21, 20223 min read
Coming To Come Bargain Strand 2: Four Alternative Approaches
This blog is part of a series on how I came to write Come Bargain With Uncanny Things (tickets available now!). If you want to read the...
leodoulton
Oct 20, 20225 min read
Coming To Come Bargain, Strand 1: Why I (Un-)love Opera
This blog is part of a series on how I came to write Come Bargain With Uncanny Things (tickets available now!). If you want to read the...
leodoulton
Oct 18, 20222 min read
A Case Against (Some) Subsidy OR Why I'm Trying To Make A Commercially Populist Opera
Introduction You may have seen the news of the failure of the ‘Festival of Brexit’, at over £500 subsidy per head for a deeply unpopular...
leodoulton
Oct 12, 20226 min read
The Bargains Begin: Starting Rehearsal For Come Bargain With Uncanny Things
After… four years of work, give or take, Come Bargain With Uncanny Things has reached its final R&D phase, ahead of a pilot run in late...
leodoulton
Oct 7, 20223 min read
Apocalypse Proofed Shows
A plausible scenario for the near future The climate crisis has continued on its current course, with rising sea levels and regular...
leodoulton
Aug 21, 20224 min read
On Being The Dead: Interactive Theatre & Historical Figures
Introduction: On Being Survivors A major part of my creative practice has been creative outreach projects for UCL’s Hebrew & Jewish...
leodoulton
Jul 30, 202219 min read
Hidden Figures: Railroading Done Right
I remember once listening to an interactive theatre maker talking about one of the most disappointing immersive shows they’d ever seen;...
leodoulton
Jul 21, 20225 min read
The Operator, The Conductor, and The Dancer
An empty white void. Three figures walk in - Ortrud the Operator, Cal the Conductor, and Dancing Dave. Ortrud wears a grungy hoodie and...
leodoulton
Jun 24, 20224 min read
The Queerness Of Interactive Immersive Theatre
Another day, another blog (all building up to something, I promise). This one briefer than most. As before, this is an attempt to...
leodoulton
Jun 22, 20222 min read
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
Golf: The Ultimate Interactive Theatre Lesson?
That tile was clickbait nonsense. But hey, you clicked anyway. So, let’s be serious: almost all interactive immersive theatre is what I’m...
leodoulton
Jun 20, 20224 min read
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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