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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...
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leodoulton
- Aug 10
- 3 min
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...
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leodoulton
- Aug 2
- 2 min
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...
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leodoulton
- Mar 31
- 2 min
The Pirate Ninja Laser Turtle School of Dramaturgy
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged anything - turns out that assisting on 25% of a Ring Cycle and Associate Creative Directing a 24...
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leodoulton
- Feb 13
- 5 min
Notes From The Dreamlands
I am, at some point, going to stop being astonished that I can make a show and have people like it. Apparently, I make experiments that...
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leodoulton
- Jan 10
- 2 min
Upcoming In 2024
Behold, there are three separate shows of mine coming up that you can book for! February Into The Dreamlands. An interactive immersive...
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leodoulton
- Jan 1
- 7 min
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...
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leodoulton
- Dec 21, 2023
- 4 min
In Resentment of Functionality
I would like to write in resentment of functionality, and tying things to reality. My mind’s been twisted by Twitter, so I’m going to...
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leodoulton
- Dec 13, 2023
- 3 min
Chekovian Cosmicism
Like most people with an interest in creating cosmic horror, I have a complex relationship with the author generally seen as its founder...
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leodoulton
- Dec 8, 2023
- 5 min
In Extremis: Didacticism in Interactive Theatre
I have noticed many interactive theatre makers do not wish to lecture their audiences. This is an impulse I often share. However, in the...
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leodoulton
- Dec 7, 2023
- 3 min
What Is Interactive Theatre About?
Bizarrely, this blog was written and not published, and in the intervening space of time one of the core conclusions has become a show in...
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leodoulton
- Dec 7, 2023
- 7 min
Truffle Hunting: An Approach to Interactive Theatre
There might be an overarching narrative, beautiful characters, and ways to influence both, but you’re not here for that. You’ve spent the...
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leodoulton
- Nov 26, 2023
- 4 min
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...
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leodoulton
- Nov 6, 2023
- 2 min
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...
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leodoulton
- Nov 6, 2023
- 3 min
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...
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leodoulton
- Nov 6, 2023
- 2 min
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...
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leodoulton
- Nov 6, 2023
- 1 min
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...
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leodoulton
- Nov 6, 2023
- 2 min
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...
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leodoulton
- Oct 28, 2023
- 2 min
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...
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leodoulton
- Oct 18, 2023
- 2 min
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...
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