LEO DOULTON

Last Sunday to Monday, I did three shows. Painting Pickman’s Model , in which a monster gives an art class, discussing what monstrosity...

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...

[Lights up; bright, peppy. Colourful outfits.] Look at all the amazing things I’ve done in 2023! I got appointed as Associate Creative...

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...

I realised that I did not have time to do what I had hoped for in my final experiment of the 12 Shows sequence: a livestreamed one-person...

I am preparing some workshops and training sessions, and thought I’d try to encapsulate some of my ideas about directing. This follows...

For a while after the lockdowns, I had worried that my ability to concentrate on art had been impaired. Whether due to post-Covid changes...

I recently worked on a tranche of applications, which included a couple of pieces I read through and immediately thought “this is...

You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. During Paradise Craved, the audience are occasionally plunged into darkness; a space...

I’m writing this just a few days after finishing a Theatre Deli London Classic Residency developing Paradise Craved, a show about a...

Future Leo, here’s your one-minute pitch next time you have to give one: I’m Leo, a writer, director, game designer and performer working...

I have got out of a habit I had when younger: small shows at the edge of my practice in a throw-away manner. That was partly because...

I am very much a writer/director. I’m not a critic. So I’m going to quietly reflect on blogging every advent calendar day, since it seems...

I know I whinge about the operatic canon and tradition a lot, but I’m quite good at my job. So I’d like to try and explain why I think...

I am, adamantly, a broad-definition ‘opera’ person. At one extreme, I’d certainly struggle to not class Les Miserables as an opera. At...

I noticed something slightly strange in my responses to comment on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things: that I was rarely upset by comments...

I have written extensively about Come Bargain With Uncanny Things, which I consider to be quite a success of craft. However, it’s...

This is my hundredth blog. You can read all of them here. I don’t want this to be a long one. These started the other side of the...

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...

Pretty well, artistically. As with any show of this nature, I’ve learnt a lot just by doing it - how audiences respond to different...