LEO DOULTON

A thing that happens when you make a show is that, suddenly, a lot of people want to be your friend, and think you’re really cool. This...

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...

Almost any good show relies on its characters. More particularly, they rely on characters in relationship with each other. In interactive...

There are those who, bizarrely, cannot see inside my mind to know what happens in each part of the Come Bargain  trilogy. So I might as...

Amid everything else in the world, I (and the Virtually Opera team) have just started crowdfunding for Come Bargain With Uncanny...

I am, at some point, going to stop being astonished that I can make a show and have people like it. Apparently, I make experiments that...

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

OR: Forgive me, for I have become a LARPer. I have just spent a joyous weekend at The Smoke: a festival of Live Action Role-Playing...

I went to The Smoke (a LARP festival in London) for the first time last weekend, had a great time, and wanted to reflect a little bit....

Behold, there are three separate shows of mine coming up that you can book for! February Into The Dreamlands. An interactive immersive...

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...

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...

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

You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. I am sad to be leaving my residency behind. While I’ll have an ongoing relationship...

You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. I had not expected to get so far with Paradise Craved that its sharings would...

You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. A motif in my recent interactive work has been pushing it beyond the bourgeois modes...

You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. During Paradise Craved, the audience are occasionally plunged into darkness; a space...