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leodoulton
3 days ago2 min read
Preparing Your Own Work: Getting Ready To Direct The Uncanny Things Trilogy
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...
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leodoulton
Feb 62 min read
Counting Down To The Uncanny Things Trilogy
There are, give or take, four weeks to go until The Uncanny Things Trilogy opens at COLAB Tower, just of Southwark Bridge, and this...
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leodoulton
Sep 20, 20242 min read
What do I love in Come Bargain? What I hope you’ll love too.
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!...
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leodoulton
Aug 10, 20243 min read
Bargain, worship, and murder: what’s the difference between the Come Bargain trilogy shows?
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...
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leodoulton
Aug 2, 20242 min read
Why Crowdfund Uncanny Things?
Amid everything else in the world, I (and the Virtually Opera team) have just started crowdfunding for Come Bargain With Uncanny...
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leodoulton
Jun 16, 20242 min read
Enduring The Ring: Bodies During The Ring Cycle
I have just attended my first Ring Cycle, assisting on Amy Lane’s Die Walküre. It was an extraordinary experience, with 14.5 hours of...
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leodoulton
Jun 14, 20248 min read
Notes towards The Ring Cycle as a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
This is, perhaps, my greatest (only) contribution to the field of Wagner studies. The essential question of: Could you run a D&D campaign...
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leodoulton
Feb 13, 20245 min read
Notes From The Dreamlands
I am, at some point, going to stop being astonished that I can make a show and have people like it. Apparently, I make experiments that...
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leodoulton
Jan 10, 20242 min read
Upcoming In 2024
Behold, there are three separate shows of mine coming up that you can book for! February Into The Dreamlands. An interactive immersive...
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leodoulton
Jan 1, 20247 min read
12 Shows: A Project From 2023
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...
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leodoulton
Dec 21, 20234 min read
In Resentment of Functionality
I would like to write in resentment of functionality, and tying things to reality. My mind’s been twisted by Twitter, so I’m going to...
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leodoulton
Dec 12, 20231 min read
Do less, but better: a pseudo-directorial philosophy
I am preparing some workshops and training sessions, and thought I’d try to encapsulate some of my ideas about directing. This follows...
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leodoulton
Dec 3, 20233 min read
Not Lying Or Pretending: What Is Acting (Not)?
A comment that appears when those in the acting profession give evidence to public enquiries, trials, and other things is “they are an...
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leodoulton
Dec 1, 20233 min read
Reasons It’s Hard To Direct [X]
I recently worked on a tranche of applications, which included a couple of pieces I read through and immediately thought “this is...
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leodoulton
Nov 6, 20232 min read
Coming To Paradise: Eden, and walking out of it
You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. I am sad to be leaving my residency behind. While I’ll have an ongoing relationship...
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leodoulton
Nov 6, 20233 min read
Coming To Paradise: Hell, otherwise known as playtesting
You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. I had not expected to get so far with Paradise Craved that its sharings would...
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leodoulton
Nov 6, 20232 min read
Coming To Paradise: Heaven and music as a means of interaction
You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. A motif in my recent interactive work has been pushing it beyond the bourgeois modes...
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leodoulton
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Coming To Paradise: Gulf, and what we cannot know
You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. During Paradise Craved, the audience are occasionally plunged into darkness; a space...
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leodoulton
Nov 6, 20232 min read
Coming To Paradise: Here, and how we got here
I’m writing this just a few days after finishing a Theatre Deli London Classic Residency developing Paradise Craved, a show about a...
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leodoulton
Oct 28, 20232 min read
A Scary Place Existed
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...
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