To start "The Wealth Walk," an interactive theater performance and history tour, I met creator Ryan Guzzo Purcell in Mount Baker Park, by the tennis courts full of pickleball players, in Seattle. Purcell began by handing me a dollar bill.

Purcell got the idea for “The Wealth Walk’” — which debuted last year but returned this month and plays through June 7 — during the pandemic, scrolling through viral videos that tried to illustrate massive wealth with metaphors.

For instance: If a grain of rice represented $100,000, how many would Jeff Bezos have? (Fifty-eight pounds of rice, it turns out.)