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Golf: The Ultimate Interactive Theatre Lesson?
That tile was clickbait nonsense. But hey, you clicked anyway. So, let’s be serious: almost all interactive immersive theatre is what I’m...
leodoulton
Jun 20, 20224 min read
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Playing With All Ages: Interactive Immersive Theatre For Mixed-Age Groups
Having been to a few mixed-age shows of late, I am having thoughts and erupting into Blog. By ‘mixed-age shows’, what I mean is shows...
leodoulton
Jun 16, 20227 min read
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Proletarian Play: Show Mechanics And Immersive Mecha
Last week (here: https://www.leodoulton.com/post/genre-as-onboarding) I mentioned that I wanted to write an article about this. And so I...
leodoulton
Jun 4, 20224 min read
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Genre As Onboarding
This article is riffing off the above Chloe Mashiter Tweet, especially a conversation in the comments about being a Tourist or a Resident...
leodoulton
May 29, 20227 min read
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Randomness and Existential Immersion
A while ago, I was on an interactive theatre training course which mentioned that many mechanics (i.e. ways the audience can influence...
leodoulton
Apr 30, 20224 min read
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Wibbly-Wobbly Time-Travelling Spaces
So, London boutique immersive theatre now has a second space to join the much-loved Colab Tavern: the Parabolic Crypt. Both are amazing...
leodoulton
Mar 30, 20222 min read
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Why Operation Mincemeat is brilliant (A partial answer)
About a fortnight ago, I was lucky enough to go and see Operation Mincemeat at the Southwark Playhouse. At the end of Act 1, my companion...
leodoulton
Feb 20, 20227 min read
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A Fortnight at Aldeburgh (Part 6): Immersive Theatre As Modern Ritual
This is the fifth in a seven-part sequence of blogs going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...
leodoulton
Feb 5, 20223 min read
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A Fortnight at Aldeburgh (Part 4): “There’s always a price”: Terry Pratchett & transactional magic.
This is the fourth in a seven-part sequence of blogs going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...
leodoulton
Feb 3, 20225 min read
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A Fortnight at Aldeburgh (Part 3): What Is Come Bargain With Uncanny Things Now?
This is the third in a seven-part sequence of blogs going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...
leodoulton
Feb 1, 20226 min read
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A Fortnight at Aldeburgh (Part 2): What Is The [cough] Point of Come Bargain With Uncanny Things?
This is the second in a seven-part sequence of essays going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...
leodoulton
Jan 31, 20224 min read
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A Fortnight at Aldeburgh (Part 1): A Conversation With Le Guin About Community & Interactive Theatre
This is the first of a seven-part sequence of essays going into the work on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things done during my Creative...
leodoulton
Jan 30, 20229 min read
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Come Bargain With Uncanny Things - some early reflections
First: it worked. You can make an opera without a score, where the audience have genuine control of the outcome, which can adapt to...
leodoulton
Jul 31, 20214 min read
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What happens if you analyse opera like a TTRPG? - Part 3 - What Social Theory Can A Game Opera Have?
This will make very little sense unless you've read the first part (on TTRPGs) here, or the second part (on opera as a social game) here....
leodoulton
Mar 27, 20212 min read
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What happens if you analyse opera like a TTRPG? - Part 1, games as social theory
I’m currently reworking the game rules used in We Sing/I Sang (working title for the rules: ‘Our People’s Song’). I’m not an expert game...
leodoulton
Mar 27, 20215 min read
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Le Guin and the inhumanity of Zoom
Thank you for reading this. I’m only writing it so that I actually write today. Finished the last show on my books the other day. Between...
leodoulton
Nov 5, 20206 min read
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The Problem With Stories
On Monday I had an excellent time at UCL Culture’s first-ever UCL Performance Lab Symposium. I was lucky enough to lead a breakaway...
leodoulton
May 4, 20194 min read
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Some thoughts on empathy and feeling.
Months ago, I wrote down “Empathy ≠ Feeling. Gormenghast the Opera.” This is my attempt to work out what I meant by that. In short, I was...
leodoulton
Dec 15, 20182 min read
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In Defence Of Indefensible Pity?
I have seen many artistic lefties grow wrathful over those who say they pity Theresa May in the past few days. This strikes me as odd....
leodoulton
Nov 29, 20182 min read
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