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leodoulton
Nov 25, 20234 min read
Froth: A Celebration OR Perspectives On Pining Princes & Pouting Princesses
I have just finished the playtest for the show given the placeholder name Pining Princes & Pouting Princesses. Excellent. More or less...
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leodoulton
Nov 6, 20232 min read
Coming To Paradise: Eden, and walking out of it
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...
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leodoulton
Nov 6, 20233 min read
Coming To Paradise: Hell, otherwise known as playtesting
You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. I had not expected to get so far with Paradise Craved that its sharings would...
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leodoulton
Nov 6, 20232 min read
Coming To Paradise: Heaven and music as a means of interaction
You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. A motif in my recent interactive work has been pushing it beyond the bourgeois modes...
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leodoulton
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Coming To Paradise: Gulf, and what we cannot know
You can read other blogs about Paradise Craved here. During Paradise Craved, the audience are occasionally plunged into darkness; a space...
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leodoulton
Nov 6, 20232 min read
Coming To Paradise: Here, and how we got here
I’m writing this just a few days after finishing a Theatre Deli London Classic Residency developing Paradise Craved, a show about a...
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leodoulton
Oct 28, 20232 min read
A Scary Place Existed
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...
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leodoulton
Oct 18, 20232 min read
I’ve been selected for a residency! (Fancy dropping by?)
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...
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leodoulton
Oct 15, 20231 min read
A Scary Blog To Exist
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...
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leodoulton
Oct 1, 20235 min read
Two Canon Sins
I have been examining my imagined dramaturgical structure for interactive immersive theatre of late, and accumulating a pile of concepts,...
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leodoulton
Sep 18, 20231 min read
Please Hire Me
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...
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leodoulton
Aug 13, 20237 min read
Can I Be An Authoritarian?: Judging Sensitivity In Interactive Theatre
I’ve recently had reason to think about various possible issues of taste in interactive immersive theatre, in particular around areas...
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leodoulton
Aug 7, 20231 min read
Thank You For Coming To Leo Doulton’s Birthday Funeral
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...
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leodoulton
Jul 30, 202311 min read
You Can’t Shoot The Audience: Interacting, Immersively, with the Tragedy of War
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...
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leodoulton
Jul 23, 202312 min read
Toilet Trips In The Burnt City
Or: some thoughts and reflections on my first time at a Punchdrunk show. This blog is unusually indebted to those people I discussed the...
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leodoulton
May 27, 20231 min read
Paradise Craved: How You Fall
Today, I playtested Paradise Craved [previously mentioned here], a rather nerve-wrackingly intimate piece of game theatre. I will not...
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leodoulton
Apr 19, 20235 min read
The Least We Can Possibly Do
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...
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leodoulton
Apr 16, 20235 min read
Free Choices, Free Goals, Ending Goals: Changing the Win Condition In Interactive Theatre
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...
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leodoulton
Mar 29, 20234 min read
LARP as score
An analogy I see pop up in a certain amount of literature about game-performance from LARPs to interactive theatre is the...
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leodoulton
Mar 21, 20231 min read
I Like Reading (Or: Caveating The Last Blog)
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...
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