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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
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
Sep 1, 20236 min read
The Bookishness of Terry Pratchett: Problems of Adaptation
An ongoing dream of mine is to adapt a Terry Pratchett book into an opera. Because I love opera (with caveats) and I love Terry Pratchett...
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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
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
May 9, 20233 min read
Performing Invisibly; Invisible Performance
I write within the hour of completing the third of my 12 Shows goal for 2023. Now I have attempted Sit In Silence, See What Happens. Very...
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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
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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Feb 22, 20235 min read
The Sleeping Protagonist
The King of Saving Cats Earlier this week, I had an excellent time at the Interactive Experience Network Huddle listening to Owen...
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leodoulton
Jan 28, 20234 min read
Show For A Sheep
The first of a sequence of projects I’m calling ’12 Shows’ has been done. It is not, as originally advertised, ‘Show For A Cow’, because...
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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 30, 20223 min read
Introductory Translation And Analysis Via Queen-Gazing Cats
There is a poem many of you will be familiar with: Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been? I’ve been up to London to visit the Queen....
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leodoulton
Dec 4, 20222 min read
The Literary TTRPG
Within the indie TTRPG space, there is a common joke: that people have more TTRPGs than they will ever play, but keep buying more. That...
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leodoulton
Nov 26, 20223 min read
Power And Play In Come Bargain With Uncanny Things
I’ve always had a slightly over-strong instinct of people ‘playing wrong’. Generally, I find myself liking play that lies comfortably in...
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leodoulton
Nov 26, 20222 min read
A Community Bargains: Building Connection Via Low Stakes
Another night, another Come Bargain blog. This time, about a vision of community in interactive theatre, drawing on a comparison made by...
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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 20, 20221 min read
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...
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leodoulton
Nov 2, 20222 min read
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,...
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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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leodoulton
Oct 22, 20228 min read
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...
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