LEO DOULTON

I intend to go back to The Smoke festival next year. Having enjoyed my first time, I thought I’d offer my brief (not-especially-reliable)...

OR: Forgive me, for I have become a LARPer. I have just spent a joyous weekend at The Smoke: a festival of Live Action Role-Playing...

I went to The Smoke (a LARP festival in London) for the first time last weekend, had a great time, and wanted to reflect a little bit....

Behold, there are three separate shows of mine coming up that you can book for! February Into The Dreamlands. An interactive immersive...

[Lights up; bright, peppy. Colourful outfits.] Look at all the amazing things I’ve done in 2023! I got appointed as Associate Creative...

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...

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...

There is a feature of Church of England choirs that many people do not realise: They are professionals. They are not singing out of...

A strand in 12 Shows has been audience-performance relationships: what if the audience is unaware that they’re seeing theatre? What if...

Real world religions and philosophies exist. Fictional religions and philosophies also exist, in a different way. And most religions and...

I was reading a Peter Brook speech on opera in which he makes the point that when looking at opera, we often find ourselves dealing with...

Or: Leo needed a snappy title, and thought you might start reading. I am a nerd. I like worldbuilding for fantasy genres and TTRPGs. But...

A friend and one of my regular players in various TTRPG campaigns recently asked me for GMing advice. While I could wax lyrical for some...

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...

Get out the nesting box. No, you can’t keep the egg. The egg is mine. And besides, other chickens might need the nesting box. How dare...

In the beginning, there was a small group of hunter-gatherers, known as ABC. And all were equals, since in a context of...

A brief note for any readers interested in stories about the fae. I’ve noticed that contemporary fantasy has an upward trend in content...

A few days ago, I did one of my 12 Shows experiments. Not least, we’re running low on days with several shows left to do. I had noted the...

Continuing this week’s theme of cosmic horror, a brief reflection on Lovecraftian characters. The Root A player in a Call of...

Introduction There are others who write better about bioessentialism in Dungeons & Dragons, and how it reflects real-world...