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I am the one who mops: a cult-like philosophy of directing
I am a firm believer that process defines output. One reason for UK theatre’s distinctive feeling (and comparative lack of...
leodoulton
Nov 15, 20221 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
The sovereign is dead. So too the nation?
Disclaimer: I'm sure there's many flaws in the below; I'm not 100% convinced by it myself, though can't quite work out why. Please do...
leodoulton
Sep 25, 202211 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
Reality and Justice: On naturalism, verismo, and Puccini.
Prologue I am at times, an academic, and one of my specialisms is in the aesthetic philosophy of opera (in short, the ways people justify...
leodoulton
Jun 26, 202220 min read
A Fortnight at Aldeburgh (Part 1): A Conversation With Le Guin About Community & Interactive Theatre
This is the first of a seven-part sequence of essays going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...
leodoulton
Jan 30, 20229 min read
What happens if you analyse opera like a TTRPG? - Part 3 - What Social Theory Can A Game Opera Have?
This will make very little sense unless you've read the first part (on TTRPGs) here, or the second part (on opera as a social game) here....
leodoulton
Mar 27, 20212 min read
What happens if you analyse opera like a TTRPG? - Part 2, opera as social game
This will make a lot more sense if you've read the first part here. At first, I thought I’d do this via the Marxian models I tend to use....
leodoulton
Mar 27, 20214 min read
The Unimaginable Liberation Of The Singer - The Nice and the Radical
At a the latest Devoted and Disgruntled conference, I called a session asking for ideas for a utopian opera festival. One thing that...
leodoulton
Feb 14, 20218 min read
Pratchett and Le Guin: A Comparison
I have a bookshelf I think of as my ‘grab in case of fire’ shelf. It is a collection of books that variously moved me to tears, changed...
leodoulton
Dec 19, 202012 min read
Le Guin and the inhumanity of Zoom
Thank you for reading this. I’m only writing it so that I actually write today. Finished the last show on my books the other day. Between...
leodoulton
Nov 5, 20206 min read
Not a war, and yet important: some thoughts on COVID-19, metaphors, and values.
On the Channel 4 news tonight there was a nurse from Northern Ireland. She said that the only way she could describe the feeling of...
leodoulton
Apr 3, 20207 min read
Living As A Cyborg
Recently, I read Haraway's excellent book "Staying with the trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene." Excellent used deliberately. Would...
leodoulton
Mar 8, 20201 min read
The Problem With Stories
On Monday I had an excellent time at UCL Culture’s first-ever UCL Performance Lab Symposium. I was lucky enough to lead a breakaway...
leodoulton
May 4, 20194 min read
Some thoughts on empathy and feeling.
Months ago, I wrote down “Empathy ≠ Feeling. Gormenghast the Opera.” This is my attempt to work out what I meant by that. In short, I was...
leodoulton
Dec 15, 20182 min read
In Defence Of Indefensible Pity?
I have seen many artistic lefties grow wrathful over those who say they pity Theresa May in the past few days. This strikes me as odd....
leodoulton
Nov 28, 20182 min read
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