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Preparing Your Own Work: Getting Ready To Direct The Uncanny Things Trilogy
As I prepare for The Uncanny Things Trilogy , I don’t think I’m the first writer/director/performer to struggle with this. But I’d...
leodoulton
Feb 122 min read
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Counting Down To The Uncanny Things Trilogy
There are, give or take, four weeks to go until The Uncanny Things Trilogy opens at COLAB Tower, just of Southwark Bridge, and this...
leodoulton
Feb 62 min read
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What do I love in Come Bargain? What I hope you’ll love too.
This is a weird blog to write. The crowdfunder finishes in five days, and a blur of frantic activity will end (yes! Get playful games!...
leodoulton
Sep 20, 20242 min read
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Building the right team - what we’re looking for in a Come Bargain-er
A thing that happens when you make a show is that, suddenly, a lot of people want to be your friend, and think you’re really cool. This...
leodoulton
Sep 15, 20245 min read
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You belong here: welcoming you into Come Bargain’s communities
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...
leodoulton
Aug 31, 20244 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Aug 24, 20243 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Aug 10, 20243 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Aug 2, 20242 min read
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Enduring The Ring: Bodies During The Ring Cycle
I have just attended my first Ring Cycle, assisting on Amy Lane’s Die Walküre. It was an extraordinary experience, with 14.5 hours of...
leodoulton
Jun 16, 20242 min read
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Notes towards The Ring Cycle as a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
This is, perhaps, my greatest (only) contribution to the field of Wagner studies. The essential question of: Could you run a D&D campaign...
leodoulton
Jun 14, 20248 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Jan 1, 20247 min read
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Rosettopera
I was reading a Peter Brook speech on opera in which he makes the point that when looking at opera, we often find ourselves dealing with...
leodoulton
Dec 23, 20232 min read
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Three Brief Further Thoughts On Opera Outreach
This may make more sense after reading the similarly-broad previous blog post on a similar topic. I am 90% sure I’ve said some of this...
leodoulton
Oct 11, 20233 min read
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Why does opera need new audiences?
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an opera company must want new audiences. The question is why. Here’s a few expanded...
leodoulton
Oct 11, 20234 min read
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The Bookishness of Terry Pratchett: Problems of Adaptation
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...
leodoulton
Sep 1, 20236 min read
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Formal, Casual, Fancy: Some Thoughts On Operatic Audience Clothing
Even in my lifetime, there’s been a shift in what people wear to the opera. Specifically, from ‘formal’ clothing to a greater acceptance...
leodoulton
Aug 5, 20233 min read
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How To Get Money From Rich Old Men: An Anti-Manifesto
I am an opera maker, and realise the terrible truth: opera needs money, desperately, all the time. Let us assume that the chance the next...
leodoulton
Apr 25, 20232 min read
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Notes Towards A Steampunk La Bohème
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...
leodoulton
Dec 24, 20225 min read
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La Commedia e’ Finita!: Two One-Act Batman Operas
CW: Description violence (operatic/Batman-level), blood transfusion Across the years, as someone in the circle of the excellent Chloe...
leodoulton
Dec 17, 20225 min read
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An Apology To The Historical Performance People, After Their Acquisition Of ABBA
Dear Historical Performance People, Please accept my apology in the face of your recent victory, after which it seems unlikely that the...
leodoulton
Dec 16, 20225 min read
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