Each spectator chooses a themed avatar (I go with an elegant Tang Court Lady) and uses their keyboard to travel around the space like a chess piece, following a glowing orb that guides you to the next piece of action.
There is much thatâs like a real promenade performance: getting a bit lost, feeling that you might have just missed something important, other people getting in your way â although theyâre not normally embodying the shape of a Xiâan horse from the terracotta army.
Writer/actor Daniel York Loh appears looming overhead, god-like, speaking to us as William Waldorf Astor, once the richest man in America and the original owner of Two Temple Place. Astor recalls his great grandfather, who a century earlier had emigrated to New York from Germany, and made his fortune trading furs and smuggling opium into China.