LEO DOULTON

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...

An ongoing dream of mine is to adapt a Terry Pratchett book into an opera. Because I love opera (with caveats) and I love Terry Pratchett...

I’ve recently had reason to think about various possible issues of taste in interactive immersive theatre, in particular around areas...

Of London’s interactive immersive output, I’d say a solid 20-30% is themed around war. Usually by setting it in World War Two; a popular...

Or: some thoughts and reflections on my first time at a Punchdrunk show. This blog is unusually indebted to those people I discussed the...

While away for L’elisir d’amore with Longborough, I thought of various things that I’d normally flesh out into a whole blog. However,...

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...

Beginnings While tearing out pages of my To-Do List (much of which had been done since the latest edition began in October 2021) I found...

An analogy I see pop up in a certain amount of literature about game-performance from LARPs to interactive theatre is the...

The other day I wrote about two well-formatted sides of A4 being an optimal amount of information for a fun experience of a piece of...

Update: I've had some further thoughts on why this is wrong. TL;DR: it’s two well-formatted A4 pages for information that’s regularly...

TL;DR: Interactive Theatre is LARP with the burden on the organisers. Most definitions of LARP vs. interactive theatre I know of come...

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...

I often start these by saying I think it will be brief.* But I have learnt. It might be brief. The core thought here is identifying a...

What would interactive theatre look like if we’d never played The Dragon Game? This is a theme that’s been touched on here before:...

The King of Saving Cats Earlier this week, I had an excellent time at the Interactive Experience Network Huddle listening to Owen...

Introduction I am writing having spent a lovely afternoon workshopping an experiment I’ve had in mind for a while [thank you to everyone...

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...

If I have a style (which, alas, I increasingly do as I stagnate away from being a young artist, and get too few opportunities to...