The gold dragon is about all of us. It is a theatrical and poetic poem about the absurd and sometimes cruel world we live in. In the struggle with social determinism that seems to engage us in a rollercoaster without escape, we deconstruct the reality in search of what remains of humanity today. With this show I officially declare war on inertia: both in life and on stage. I built together with my travel partners a ""dream vehicle"" – This is how I would characterize the show. We have challenged ourselves and intend to challenge the public on a journey into the realm of collective consciousness, a magical place, a paradise becoming the purgatory of the self-indulgent and ignorant man. We are also victims and executioners, and the complicity between these two roles holds us in constant tension, consumes us, devours us, becomes pawns on a great board game we have created. Empathy means freedom, what a beautiful statement! Schimmelpfenning wrote an extraordinary fabulous contemporary world! A kind of Brecht of incredible poetry, a piece of landscape like Gertrude Stein, in the center of which there is not a character, but a tooth. Five Asians, who could also be Turks or Romanians or Hungarians or other poor people in the world, anyway, immigrants without papers, black market workers in a crowded fast-food called the Golden Dragon. The little restaurant is located in the middle of the Chinese quarter of the city, in a building that has a grocery store, a warehouse and a wealth of dwellings. They live here in this ant farm, all sorts of people, and their stories melt together in a bizarre and yet natural way, in a fateful summer day.