LEO DOULTON

Another day, another blog (all building up to something, I promise). This one briefer than most. As before, this is an attempt to...

A while ago, I was in a post-blog conversation about rituals in interactive theatre and especially the idea of making a cup of tea as...

That tile was clickbait nonsense. But hey, you clicked anyway. So, let’s be serious: almost all interactive immersive theatre is what I’m...

Having been to a few mixed-age shows of late, I am having thoughts and erupting into Blog. By ‘mixed-age shows’, what I mean is shows...

Last week (here: https://www.leodoulton.com/post/genre-as-onboarding) I mentioned that I wanted to write an article about this. And so I...

This article is riffing off the above Chloe Mashiter Tweet, especially a conversation in the comments about being a Tourist or a Resident...

Paul Shapera is (probably) the most prolific opera composer of the 21st century. He’s also the one my operatic peers are least likely to...

Like most England-based artists, I’ve made a number of applications to Arts Council England (ACE) for money. They’ve just changed the...

A while ago, I was on an interactive theatre training course which mentioned that many mechanics (i.e. ways the audience can influence...

About a fortnight ago, two very clever people posted Tweets bemoaning the lack of faith of sector leaders in modern (or, at least, 1945)...

Thoughts on VO’s birthday, for the record. This is going to be a long one, I suspect. PART 1: The Beginning I’m genuinely surprised it’s...

So, London boutique immersive theatre now has a second space to join the much-loved Colab Tavern: the Parabolic Crypt. Both are amazing...

In a few places on this site, I say that I'd love to hear from potential collaborators. Translation: I really like writing and directing,...

In a brief but enjoyable tangent while developing Come Bargain With Uncanny Things, I had reason to consider what legal rights applied to...

About a fortnight ago, I was lucky enough to go and see Operation Mincemeat at the Southwark Playhouse. At the end of Act 1, my companion...

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

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

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

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

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