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2023: Aren’t I Great? Look At Everything I’ve Done!
[Lights up; bright, peppy. Colourful outfits.] Look at all the amazing things I’ve done in 2023! I got appointed as Associate Creative...
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leodoulton
Jan 17 min read
12 Shows: A Project From 2023
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...
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leodoulton
Dec 31, 20232 min read
A Final Experiment: Gentle Livestreams
I realised that I did not have time to do what I had hoped for in my final experiment of the 12 Shows sequence: a livestreamed one-person...
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leodoulton
Dec 12, 20231 min read
Do less, but better: a pseudo-directorial philosophy
I am preparing some workshops and training sessions, and thought I’d try to encapsulate some of my ideas about directing. This follows...
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leodoulton
Dec 2, 20233 min read
Concentration: Ability and Patience
For a while after the lockdowns, I had worried that my ability to concentrate on art had been impaired. Whether due to post-Covid changes...
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leodoulton
Dec 1, 20233 min read
Reasons It’s Hard To Direct [X]
I recently worked on a tranche of applications, which included a couple of pieces I read through and immediately thought “this is...
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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
Mar 14, 20231 min read
Leo: A Plug
Future Leo, here’s your one-minute pitch next time you have to give one: I’m Leo, a writer, director, game designer and performer working...
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leodoulton
Dec 31, 20222 min read
A Plan For 2023
I have got out of a habit I had when younger: small shows at the edge of my practice in a throw-away manner. That was partly because...
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leodoulton
Dec 24, 20222 min read
Daily Blogging: A Reflection
I am very much a writer/director. I’m not a critic. So I’m going to quietly reflect on blogging every advent calendar day, since it seems...
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leodoulton
Dec 19, 20223 min read
Why You Should Let Me Direct Your Classic Opera
I know I whinge about the operatic canon and tradition a lot, but I’m quite good at my job. So I’d like to try and explain why I think...
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leodoulton
Dec 11, 20226 min read
The case for Come Bargain With Uncanny Things as opera
I am, adamantly, a broad-definition ‘opera’ person. At one extreme, I’d certainly struggle to not class Les Miserables as an opera. At...
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leodoulton
Dec 8, 20223 min read
On Being Not-Opera
I noticed something slightly strange in my responses to comment on Come Bargain With Uncanny Things: that I was rarely upset by comments...
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leodoulton
Dec 1, 20222 min read
My Friend, The Graph
I have written extensively about Come Bargain With Uncanny Things, which I consider to be quite a success of craft. However, it’s...
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leodoulton
Nov 26, 20221 min read
One Hundred Blogs
This is my hundredth blog. You can read all of them here. I don’t want this to be a long one. These started the other side of the...
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leodoulton
Nov 24, 20222 min read
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...
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leodoulton
Nov 22, 20222 min read
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...
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leodoulton
Nov 15, 20221 min read
I am the one who mops: a cult-like philosophy of directing
I am a firm believer that process defines output. One reason for UK theatre’s distinctive feeling (and comparative lack of...
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leodoulton
Oct 23, 20221 min read
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...
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