every dollar is a soldier/ with money you're a dragon

Winner of Arts Council England's Digital Culture Award - Storytelling “potent… feels like a glimpse of how we might travel in the future…” The Stage Mixing gaming and 3D technology, this award-winning 45 minute production mixes original music, virtual performances and a new script exploring the migrant experience, from the poorest of Chinese sailors who jumped ship in the East End, to the richest of men like William Waldorf Astor, the eccentric founder of Two Temple Place who migrated to the UK from the USA, every dollar is a soldier/with money you’re a dragon is set ‘after hours’ in the gallery, twenty audience members, visible to each other as their chosen avatars gather in the lobby and start by following the glowing orb that guides us through the virtual galleries. As we travel through, we meet choreographer and dancer Si Rawlinson, musicians Wang Xiao and Cheng Yu, playing An-Ting 安婷’s contemporary new score on traditional Chinese instruments and meet Astor himself, played by Daniel York Loh, whose poetic and powerful narration runs throughout the performance.