LEO DOULTON

This is the second in a seven-part sequence of essays going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...

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...

TL;DR: done some work. Thrown lots of it away. Learnt a new type of fish. I’ve spent the past week on a Creative Retreat, thanks to...

What’s the best way to do auditions? Auditions suck. There’s no feeling like that of sending an email to say no to someone talented who’s...

I'm very excited to be a part of the first issue of Voidspace! Some fantastic contributions to enliven your weekend. Also the Archive...

CROWD-PLEASINGLY LUKEWARM TAKES Pitch: a post-colonial #AntiquesRoadshow where second and third generations come and give the valuations...

Recently, I updated the website, and realised that the text on my directing page that said I struggled to define my style was no longer...

Once upon a time - all good stories begin with once upon a time - there was a great performer by the name of Pagliacci. Pagliacci had the...

First: it worked. You can make an opera without a score, where the audience have genuine control of the outcome, which can adapt to...

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....

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....

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...

At a the latest Devoted and Disgruntled conference, I called a session asking for ideas for a utopian opera festival. One thing that...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...