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What Next For Come Bargain With Uncanny Things?
This is a question I have been getting a lot, since the immediate ‘next’ after each show is waiting for my hair to dry after removing an...
leodoulton
Nov 24, 20222 min read
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How’s Come Bargain With Uncanny Things Going?
Pretty well, artistically. As with any show of this nature, I’ve learnt a lot just by doing it - how audiences respond to different...
leodoulton
Nov 22, 20222 min read
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To The Victory Of Cake
After the first week of Come Bargain With Uncanny Things, I just wanted to write a short manifesto of a core concept. To the victory of...
leodoulton
Nov 20, 20221 min read
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Onboarding As Journey
Last week, the excellent Chloe Mashiter wrote a blog about the audience journey into an interactive immersive show, which I’d recommend...
leodoulton
Nov 10, 20224 min read
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Forming Interactive Ritual-Opera: What Might You Expect?
Last week I had the pleasure of some mentoring sessions with Chloe Mashiter and Tom Black to develop Come Bargain With Uncanny Things,...
leodoulton
Nov 2, 20222 min read
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Coming To Come Bargain Strand 5: Things people have called me to compare me to 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...
leodoulton
Oct 23, 20221 min read
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Coming To Come Bargain With Uncanny Things Strand 4: The Reading List Cometh
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...
leodoulton
Oct 22, 20228 min read
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Coming To Come Bargain With Uncanny Things Strand 3: No Hero, No Journey
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...
leodoulton
Oct 21, 20223 min read
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Coming To Come Bargain Strand 2: Four Alternative Approaches
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...
leodoulton
Oct 20, 20225 min read
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Coming To Come Bargain, Strand 1: Why I (Un-)love Opera
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...
leodoulton
Oct 18, 20222 min read
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A Case Against (Some) Subsidy OR Why I'm Trying To Make A Commercially Populist Opera
Introduction You may have seen the news of the failure of the ‘Festival of Brexit’, at over £500 subsidy per head for a deeply unpopular...
leodoulton
Oct 12, 20226 min read
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The Bargains Begin: Starting Rehearsal For Come Bargain With Uncanny Things
After… four years of work, give or take, Come Bargain With Uncanny Things has reached its final R&D phase, ahead of a pilot run in late...
leodoulton
Oct 7, 20223 min read
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Apocalypse Proofed Shows
A plausible scenario for the near future The climate crisis has continued on its current course, with rising sea levels and regular...
leodoulton
Aug 21, 20224 min read
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On Being The Dead: Interactive Theatre & Historical Figures
Introduction: On Being Survivors A major part of my creative practice has been creative outreach projects for UCL’s Hebrew & Jewish...
leodoulton
Jul 30, 202219 min read
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Hidden Figures: Railroading Done Right
I remember once listening to an interactive theatre maker talking about one of the most disappointing immersive shows they’d ever seen;...
leodoulton
Jul 21, 20225 min read
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The Operator, The Conductor, and The Dancer
An empty white void. Three figures walk in - Ortrud the Operator, Cal the Conductor, and Dancing Dave. Ortrud wears a grungy hoodie and...
leodoulton
Jun 24, 20224 min read
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The Queerness Of Interactive Immersive Theatre
Another day, another blog (all building up to something, I promise). This one briefer than most. As before, this is an attempt to...
leodoulton
Jun 22, 20222 min read
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Eight Meanings of Tea
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...
leodoulton
Jun 21, 20223 min read
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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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