LEO DOULTON

As I prepare for The Uncanny Things Trilogy ,   I don’t think I’m the first writer/director/performer to struggle with this. But I’d...

There are, give or take, four weeks to go until The Uncanny Things Trilogy   opens at COLAB Tower, just of Southwark Bridge, and this...

This is a weird blog to write. The crowdfunder finishes in five days, and a blur of frantic activity will end (yes! Get playful games!...

A thing that happens when you make a show is that, suddenly, a lot of people want to be your friend, and think you’re really cool. This...

Almost any good show relies on its characters. More particularly, they rely on characters in relationship with each other. In interactive...

There are those who, bizarrely, cannot see inside my mind to know what happens in each part of the Come Bargain  trilogy. So I might as...

Amid everything else in the world, I (and the Virtually Opera team) have just started crowdfunding for Come Bargain With Uncanny...

I am, adamantly, a broad-definition ‘opera’ person. At one extreme, I’d certainly struggle to not class Les Miserables as an opera. At...

I noticed something slightly strange in my responses to comment on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things: that I was rarely upset by comments...

I am firmly of the opinion that a good approach to funding is to state what you need, and roughly what it should cost. So, since quite a...

I’m still not quite accepting that Come Bargain With Uncanny Things might yet return; there’s a market for it, and it’s quite desirable....

I’d like to, ideally, have Virtually Opera making regular shows, and work that is accessible for those not able to make our live shows....

I’ve always had a slightly over-strong instinct of people ‘playing wrong’. Generally, I find myself liking play that lies comfortably in...

Another night, another Come Bargain blog. This time, about a vision of community in interactive theatre, drawing on a comparison made by...

I’ve been invited to discuss this a number of times by opera peers, and tried to hold my tongue so I don’t feel like I’m using a hot take...

This is a question I have been getting a lot, since the immediate ‘next’ after each show is waiting for my hair to dry after removing an...

Pretty well, artistically. As with any show of this nature, I’ve learnt a lot just by doing it - how audiences respond to different...

After the first week of Come Bargain With Uncanny Things, I just wanted to write a short manifesto of a core concept. To the victory of...

Last week, the excellent Chloe Mashiter wrote a blog about the audience journey into an interactive immersive show, which I’d recommend...

Last week I had the pleasure of some mentoring sessions with Chloe Mashiter and Tom Black to develop Come Bargain With Uncanny Things,...