LEO DOULTON

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...

I’m writing this just a few days after finishing a Theatre Deli London Classic Residency developing Paradise Craved, a show about a...

I have yet to do my post-show reflection blog for A Scary Place To Exist (or, indeed, to decide whether or not to count is as one of my...

I am delighted to say that I’ve been selected for one of Theatre Deli’s London Classic Residencies. I’ll be spending two weeks developing...

This week, I’ll be teaming up with Vic Sautter to present A Scary Place To Exist, featuring Tom Black. It’s essentially a show built to...

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...

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

I have, as a point of archiving, been recording notes on 12 Shows as each one is presented. But while it was another informative and...

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...

Today, I playtested Paradise Craved [previously mentioned here], a rather nerve-wrackingly intimate piece of game theatre. I will not...

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...