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Painting Renaissance Sales: Reflections On A Three-Show Weekend
Last Sunday to Monday, I did three shows. Painting Pickman’s Model , in which a monster gives an art class, discussing what monstrosity...
leodoulton
Feb 204 min read
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Preparing Your Own Work: Getting Ready To Direct The Uncanny Things Trilogy
As I prepare for The Uncanny Things Trilogy , I don’t think I’m the first writer/director/performer to struggle with this. But I’d...
leodoulton
Feb 122 min read
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Counting Down To The Uncanny Things Trilogy
There are, give or take, four weeks to go until The Uncanny Things Trilogy opens at COLAB Tower, just of Southwark Bridge, and this...
leodoulton
Feb 62 min read
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What do I love in Come Bargain? What I hope you’ll love too.
This is a weird blog to write. The crowdfunder finishes in five days, and a blur of frantic activity will end (yes! Get playful games!...
leodoulton
Sep 20, 20242 min read
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You belong here: welcoming you into Come Bargain’s communities
What’s the most welcome you’ve ever felt in an interactive show? It’s a big question, and partly depends on the person, and partly on the...
leodoulton
Aug 31, 20244 min read
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Bargain, worship, and murder: what’s the difference between the Come Bargain trilogy shows?
There are those who, bizarrely, cannot see inside my mind to know what happens in each part of the Come Bargain trilogy. So I might as...
leodoulton
Aug 10, 20243 min read
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Why Crowdfund Uncanny Things?
Amid everything else in the world, I (and the Virtually Opera team) have just started crowdfunding for Come Bargain With Uncanny...
leodoulton
Aug 2, 20242 min read
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The Pirate Ninja Laser Turtle School of Dramaturgy
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged anything - turns out that assisting on 25% of a Ring Cycle and Associate Creative Directing a 24...
leodoulton
Mar 31, 20242 min read
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Notes From The Dreamlands
I am, at some point, going to stop being astonished that I can make a show and have people like it. Apparently, I make experiments that...
leodoulton
Feb 13, 20245 min read
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Upcoming In 2024
Behold, there are three separate shows of mine coming up that you can book for! February Into The Dreamlands. An interactive immersive...
leodoulton
Jan 10, 20242 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Jan 1, 20247 min read
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In Resentment of Functionality
I would like to write in resentment of functionality, and tying things to reality. My mind’s been twisted by Twitter, so I’m going to...
leodoulton
Dec 21, 20234 min read
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Chekovian Cosmicism
Like most people with an interest in creating cosmic horror, I have a complex relationship with the author generally seen as its founder...
leodoulton
Dec 13, 20233 min read
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In Extremis: Didacticism in Interactive Theatre
I have noticed many interactive theatre makers do not wish to lecture their audiences. This is an impulse I often share. However, in the...
leodoulton
Dec 8, 20235 min read
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What Is Interactive Theatre About?
Bizarrely, this blog was written and not published, and in the intervening space of time one of the core conclusions has become a show in...
leodoulton
Dec 7, 20233 min read
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Truffle Hunting: An Approach to Interactive Theatre
There might be an overarching narrative, beautiful characters, and ways to influence both, but you’re not here for that. You’ve spent the...
leodoulton
Dec 7, 20237 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Nov 26, 20234 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Nov 6, 20232 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Nov 6, 20233 min read
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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...
leodoulton
Nov 6, 20232 min read
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