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What happens if you analyse opera like a TTRPG? - Part 3 - What Social Theory Can A Game Opera Have?

leodoulton

Mar 27, 2021
2 min

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....

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What happens if you analyse opera like a TTRPG? - Part 2, opera as social game

leodoulton

Mar 27, 2021
4 min

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....

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What happens if you analyse opera like a TTRPG? - Part 1, games as social theory

leodoulton

Mar 27, 2021
5 min

What happens if you analyse opera like a TTRPG? - Part 1, games as social theory

I’m currently reworking the game rules used in We Sing/I Sang (working title for the rules: ‘Our People’s Song’). I’m not an expert game...

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The Unimaginable Liberation Of The Singer - The Nice and the Radical

leodoulton

Feb 14, 2021
8 min

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...

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leodoulton

Feb 12, 2021
6 min

A Year In Viriconium

Sod it, I’m going to try writing about a book. Warning: Spoilers and ill-formed thoughts abound. The latest lockdown reading has been...

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The World No Longer Needs Political Poems

leodoulton

Jan 20, 2021
1 min

The World No Longer Needs Political Poems

And yet, today seems the right day for this doodle. Half a lie, half a lie, Half a lie onwards, Bringing the valley of Death Rode the...

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leodoulton

Dec 19, 2020
12 min

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...

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leodoulton

Nov 5, 2020
6 min

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...

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leodoulton

Sep 16, 2020
2 min

The Work is back(ish)

And it, more or less, feels good. Good to make theatre that maybe not everyone will like, and is definitely a bit rough around the edges...

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leodoulton

Jul 21, 2020
4 min

Virtual Opera

Lockdown has caused a rash of online opera, so I thought I'd write a bit about my experiences with opera for film - whether researching...

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leodoulton

Jun 29, 2020
1 min

Prizes and Plagues

Since I haven't updated this blog for a while, here's a quick update on miscellaneous achievements and events over the past few months: I...

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Not a war, and yet important: some thoughts on COVID-19, metaphors, and values.

leodoulton

Apr 3, 2020
7 min

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...

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leodoulton

Mar 19, 2020
36 min

INVIGILATORS

Leo Doulton The story explores a static ritual: formal written exams, sat in silence, much like those my pensioner colleagues sat decades...

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leodoulton

Mar 8, 2020
1 min

Living As A Cyborg

Recently, I read Haraway's excellent book "Staying with the trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene." Excellent used deliberately. Would...

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leodoulton

Mar 7, 2020
4 min

So, I'm not an Offies finalist.

I said I’d do a blog about the Offie finalists for 2019, so I will. I had the concept for, translated, and directed one of the nominees...

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leodoulton

Jan 1, 2020
2 min

New Year, New Website!

Well, not really. But I've just updated it to include all the shows I did this year, with a lovely new layout for the sections about...

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leodoulton

Oct 21, 2019
3 min

Wasting Time

There's a devising project I do with some old friends who now have proper jobs. Without wanting to damage the secrecy of the room, I want...

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leodoulton

Sep 8, 2019
1 min

Don Jo! Offie nomination

There'll be a longer post about this summer later, but apparently Don Jo has been nominated for an Offie, so just posting that very...

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leodoulton

Jul 5, 2019
17 min

The Time Agent

I wrote this short story as an experiment in writing in six dimensions. Hope you enjoy it! The Time Agent There are rules about writing...

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leodoulton

May 4, 2019
4 min

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...

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