Cathay Pacific – Gillian Lynne Theatre Installation

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LED Installation
3D Animation
Brand Activation
Eight portrait 4K screens Solarflare installed along the Gillian Lynne Theatre escalator for Cathay Pacific with Prodigious. Travel content plays across the full ride.
Eight screens, one journey
When Cathay Pacific came to us through Prodigious to activate their Gillian Lynne Theatre sponsorship, we had one brief: make the escalator ride mean something. We designed and built an eight-screen portrait installation that lines the full length of the theatre escalator, turning a 90-second transit moment into a Cathay Pacific travel experience. Each 4K display was mapped to the physical rhythm of the ride, so the content moves with the audience rather than playing against them.Destination films, aerial sequences and atmospheric travel content fill the vertical format naturally, the way a window seat fills a frame mid-flight. The installation runs every performance night, reaching thousands of theatregoers across the season without asking anything of them except to look up.
Fitting into a Grade I listed space
The Gillian Lynne Theatre is a protected building, which meant every cable run, every mount point, every power solution had to be agreed with the venue before a single screen went in. We worked with the production team and venue operations to design a system that fits the existing architecture without modification to the structure itself. Display placement follows the escalator geometry so each screen reads as part of the space rather than bolted onto it.The content management system sits backstage, controlled remotely, so the Cathay Pacific team can update and schedule content without on-site visits. Reliability was non-negotiable for a permanent installation in an active venue. We specified commercial-grade panels with scheduled brightness controls tied to the theatre's event calendar.
Theatre audiences, brand recall
Venue sponsorship lives or dies by the quality of the touchpoint. A logo in a programme is passive. An eight-screen installation that surrounds you on the way into a West End show is not. We built this to hold attention during a moment when audiences are physically captive and emotionally primed, arriving for a night they chose and paid for.The content strategy pairs Cathay Pacific's route network with the theatre's global cultural positioning. Both brands sit in the same space: premium, international, earned. The installation has run across multiple seasons as part of Cathay Pacific's London cultural programme.