LEO DOULTON

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...

While I’ve seen light-hearted and schlocky interactive theatre, I’ve never seen something that I’d class as comedy-comedy. Mockery of...

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...

A quiet note to theatrical creators, after a few shows I’ve seen. A thought that occurs to me while my mouth is filled… With a crunchie...

I am, adamantly, a broad-definition ‘opera’ person. At one extreme, I’d certainly struggle to not class Les Miserables as an opera. At...

It’s Christmas, and time for arguments about whether Baby, It’s Cold Outside is something an enlightened culture ought to listen to. To...

I noticed something slightly strange in my responses to comment on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things: that I was rarely upset by comments...

I really dislike puzzles as a game mechanics. I do enjoy setting puzzles, however. Here’s a dive into why, and how to make them work for...

Hello. I’m an arts worker, and today I’m going to complain about people who are broadly speaking on my side. Because that’s what we do....

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...

Last week, the excellent Chloe Mashiter wrote a blog about the audience journey into an interactive immersive show, which I’d recommend...

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...

Introduction: On Being Survivors A major part of my creative practice has been creative outreach projects for UCL’s Hebrew & Jewish...

I remember once listening to an interactive theatre maker talking about one of the most disappointing immersive shows they’d ever seen;...

Prologue I am at times, an academic, and one of my specialisms is in the aesthetic philosophy of opera (in short, the ways people justify...

An empty white void. Three figures walk in - Ortrud the Operator, Cal the Conductor, and Dancing Dave. Ortrud wears a grungy hoodie and...

Another day, another blog (all building up to something, I promise). This one briefer than most. As before, this is an attempt to...

A while ago, I was in a post-blog conversation about rituals in interactive theatre and especially the idea of making a cup of tea as...