LEO DOULTON

I am a firm believer that process defines output. One reason for UK theatre’s distinctive feeling (and comparative lack of...

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...

Disclaimer: I'm sure there's many flaws in the below; I'm not 100% convinced by it myself, though can't quite work out why. Please do...

Introduction: On Being Survivors A major part of my creative practice has been creative outreach projects for UCL’s Hebrew & Jewish...

Prologue I am at times, an academic, and one of my specialisms is in the aesthetic philosophy of opera (in short, the ways people justify...

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...

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....

This will make a lot more sense if you've read the first part here. At first, I thought I’d do this via the Marxian models I tend to use....

At a the latest Devoted and Disgruntled conference, I called a session asking for ideas for a utopian opera festival. One thing that...

I have a bookshelf I think of as my ‘grab in case of fire’ shelf. It is a collection of books that variously moved me to tears, changed...

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...

On the Channel 4 news tonight there was a nurse from Northern Ireland. She said that the only way she could describe the feeling of...

Recently, I read Haraway's excellent book "Staying with the trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene." Excellent used deliberately. Would...

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...

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...

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....