LEO DOULTON

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...

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...

This week, I’ll be teaming up with Vic Sautter to present A Scary Place To Exist, featuring Tom Black. It’s essentially a show built to...

A friend of mine, in response to some demurring, modest comment I made, pointed out that my hobby of reading epic poems (in translation)...

This may make more sense after reading the similarly-broad previous blog post on a similar topic. I am 90% sure I’ve said some of this...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an opera company must want new audiences. The question is why. Here’s a few expanded...

I have been examining my imagined dramaturgical structure for interactive immersive theatre of late, and accumulating a pile of concepts,...

Really, the title says it. But with Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 ending (where I am marketing director), I’d like to remind...

An ongoing dream of mine is to adapt a Terry Pratchett book into an opera. Because I love opera (with caveats) and I love Terry Pratchett...

I’ve recently had reason to think about various possible issues of taste in interactive immersive theatre, in particular around areas...

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...

Even in my lifetime, there’s been a shift in what people wear to the opera. Specifically, from ‘formal’ clothing to a greater acceptance...

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...

Or: some thoughts and reflections on my first time at a Punchdrunk show. This blog is unusually indebted to those people I discussed the...

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,...

Today, I playtested Paradise Craved [previously mentioned here], a rather nerve-wrackingly intimate piece of game theatre. I will not...

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...

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...

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...