LEO DOULTON

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)...

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...

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...

This starts with me. But I unlocked the door via Le Guin. Le Guin In a passage about the rise of interactive adaptations of classic...

Future Leo, here’s your one-minute pitch next time you have to give one: I’m Leo, a writer, director, game designer and performer working...

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...

There is a poem many of you will be familiar with: Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been? I’ve been up to London to visit the Queen....

I know I whinge about the operatic canon and tradition a lot, but I’m quite good at my job. So I’d like to try and explain why I think...

When I was younger, I spent time in acting classes alongside singers. I have since directed, written for, and otherwise collaborated with...

The short version of this is: directing Shakespeare is much like directing opera. Both times, the text comes with certain ideas that are...

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...

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...

I am a firm believer that process defines output. One reason for UK theatre’s distinctive feeling (and comparative lack of...

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

This blog is part of a series on how I came to write Come Bargain With Uncanny Things (tickets available now!). If you want to read the...