LEO DOULTON

Like most people with an interest in creating cosmic horror, I have a complex relationship with the author generally seen as its founder...

Cosmicism is the philosophy associated most strongly with H.P. Lovecraft’s school of cosmic horror. The idea that the universe means...

In addition to my theatrical work, and at the beginning of a week of blogs around cosmic horror, I thought I’d delve a little into game...

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

A while ago, I passed Stonehenge in a car. It remains striking. Here are some thoughts on it as a piece of stage design, given that most...

I have noticed many interactive theatre makers do not wish to lecture their audiences. This is an impulse I often share. However, in the...

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...

There might be an overarching narrative, beautiful characters, and ways to influence both, but you’re not here for that. You’ve spent the...

A short thought after attending a conference on space anthropology. One consequence of growing wealth inequality has been an increasing...

There’s a concept in game design called Princess Play. Named after a common childhood game of pretending to be a princess, it can be...

A comment that appears when those in the acting profession give evidence to public enquiries, trials, and other things is “they are an...

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...

I have just finished the playtest for the show given the placeholder name Pining Princes & Pouting Princesses. Excellent. More or less...

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...

You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. I had not expected to get so far with Paradise Craved that its sharings would...

You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. A motif in my recent interactive work has been pushing it beyond the bourgeois modes...

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...

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...