LEO DOULTON

This one’s for the fellow interactive theatre makers, for I have a bold Dramaturgical Theory to present. When I started out in...

One of the most important schools of dramatic theory (at least in London) has no formal articulation. Born on message boards and memes,...

What’s the most welcome you’ve ever felt in an interactive show? It’s a big question, and partly depends on the person, and partly on the...

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged anything - turns out that assisting on 25% of a Ring Cycle and Associate Creative Directing a 24...

A brief thought after a flash of clarity, drawing on my many, many previous blogs on interactive immersive theatre. Situation-room...

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...

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...

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...

In the beginning, there was a small group of hunter-gatherers, known as ABC. And all were equals, since in a context of...

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...

Like most people with an interest in creating cosmic horror, I have a complex relationship with the author generally seen as its founder...

I have noticed many interactive theatre makers do not wish to lecture their audiences. This is an impulse I often share. However, in the...

Bizarrely, this blog was written and not published, and in the intervening space of time one of the core conclusions has become a show in...

There might be an overarching narrative, beautiful characters, and ways to influence both, but you’re not here for that. You’ve spent the...

There’s a concept in game design called Princess Play. Named after a common childhood game of pretending to be a princess, it can be...

A comment that appears when those in the acting profession give evidence to public enquiries, trials, and other things is “they are an...

For a while after the lockdowns, I had worried that my ability to concentrate on art had been impaired. Whether due to post-Covid changes...

I recently worked on a tranche of applications, which included a couple of pieces I read through and immediately thought “this is...

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