LEO DOULTON

At the end of 2022, I wrote A Plan For 2023. In it, I made a simple statement: that I had lost my youthful habit of regular experimental...

I realised that I did not have time to do what I had hoped for in my final experiment of the 12 Shows sequence: a livestreamed one-person...

There is a feature of Church of England choirs that many people do not realise: They are professionals. They are not singing out of...

A strand in 12 Shows has been audience-performance relationships: what if the audience is unaware that they’re seeing theatre? What if...

A few days ago, I did one of my 12 Shows experiments. Not least, we’re running low on days with several shows left to do. I had noted the...

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

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...

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)...

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...

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

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’ve recently had the pleasure of playtesting 12-Handed Monopoly: A LARP of Capital, Revolution, and Blatant Theft, the second part of my...

The first of a sequence of projects I’m calling ’12 Shows’ has been done. It is not, as originally advertised, ‘Show For A Cow’, because...

I have got out of a habit I had when younger: small shows at the edge of my practice in a throw-away manner. That was partly because...

I haven’t always been a game designer, or creator of interactive experiences. But when I was a child, there was a promise on a box I’d...