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Thank You For Coming To Leo Doulton’s Birthday Funeral
I have, as a point of archiving, been recording notes on 12 Shows as each one is presented. But while it was another informative and...
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leodoulton
- Aug 5, 2023
- 3 min
Formal, Casual, Fancy: Some Thoughts On Operatic Audience Clothing
Even in my lifetime, there’s been a shift in what people wear to the opera. Specifically, from ‘formal’ clothing to a greater acceptance...
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leodoulton
- Jul 30, 2023
- 11 min
You Can’t Shoot The Audience: Interacting, Immersively, with the Tragedy of War
Of London’s interactive immersive output, I’d say a solid 20-30% is themed around war. Usually by setting it in World War Two; a popular...
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leodoulton
- Jul 23, 2023
- 12 min
Toilet Trips In The Burnt City
Or: some thoughts and reflections on my first time at a Punchdrunk show. This blog is unusually indebted to those people I discussed the...
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leodoulton
- Jul 13, 2023
- 4 min
Six Blogs From Away
While away for L’elisir d’amore with Longborough, I thought of various things that I’d normally flesh out into a whole blog. However,...
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leodoulton
- May 27, 2023
- 1 min
Paradise Craved: How You Fall
Today, I playtested Paradise Craved [previously mentioned here], a rather nerve-wrackingly intimate piece of game theatre. I will not...
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leodoulton
- May 14, 2023
- 2 min
Rehearsal Friends
An observation I suspect I’ve made before, but might as well repeat. There’s this weird thing in opera, theatre, and similar where we...
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leodoulton
- May 9, 2023
- 3 min
Performing Invisibly; Invisible Performance
I write within the hour of completing the third of my 12 Shows goal for 2023. Now I have attempted Sit In Silence, See What Happens. Very...
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leodoulton
- Apr 25, 2023
- 2 min
How To Get Money From Rich Old Men: An Anti-Manifesto
I am an opera maker, and realise the terrible truth: opera needs money, desperately, all the time. Let us assume that the chance the next...
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leodoulton
- Apr 19, 2023
- 5 min
The Least We Can Possibly Do
This starts with me. But I unlocked the door via Le Guin. Le Guin In a passage about the rise of interactive adaptations of classic...
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leodoulton
- Apr 16, 2023
- 5 min
Free Choices, Free Goals, Ending Goals: Changing the Win Condition In Interactive Theatre
Beginnings While tearing out pages of my To-Do List (much of which had been done since the latest edition began in October 2021) I found...
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leodoulton
- Mar 31, 2023
- 9 min
I Did Not Consent To Immortality
TL;DR: So-called Artificial Intelligence (or Generative Programmes) are becoming ubiquitous. Its possibilities are genuinely exciting....
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leodoulton
- Mar 29, 2023
- 4 min
LARP as score
An analogy I see pop up in a certain amount of literature about game-performance from LARPs to interactive theatre is the...
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leodoulton
- Mar 21, 2023
- 1 min
I Like Reading (Or: Caveating The Last Blog)
The other day I wrote about two well-formatted sides of A4 being an optimal amount of information for a fun experience of a piece of...
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leodoulton
- Mar 19, 2023
- 8 min
2 Sides of A4: The Optimal Length (For Interactive Theatre Knowledge)
Update: I've had some further thoughts on why this is wrong. TL;DR: it’s two well-formatted A4 pages for information that’s regularly...
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leodoulton
- Mar 15, 2023
- 3 min
Finding The Margins: Looking At Interactive Theatre Through LARP & labour
TL;DR: Interactive Theatre is LARP with the burden on the organisers. Most definitions of LARP vs. interactive theatre I know of come...
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leodoulton
- Mar 15, 2023
- 1 min
Leo: A Plug
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...
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leodoulton
- Mar 14, 2023
- 5 min
Horizontal Mechanics, 12-Handed Monopoly, and Nothing Is Ever New
I’ve recently had the pleasure of playtesting 12-Handed Monopoly: A LARP of Capital, Revolution, and Blatant Theft, the second part of my...
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leodoulton
- Mar 4, 2023
- 6 min
Being and Doing: Default Modes of Play
I often start these by saying I think it will be brief.* But I have learnt. It might be brief. The core thought here is identifying a...
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leodoulton
- Feb 24, 2023
- 3 min
Outside The Dungeon: Some Possible Sources For New Kinds Of Mechanic
What would interactive theatre look like if we’d never played The Dragon Game? This is a theme that’s been touched on here before:...
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