LEO DOULTON

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...

I have been examining my imagined dramaturgical structure for interactive immersive theatre of late, and accumulating a pile of concepts,...

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...