regarding the images in the Journal of what The Strand performance stage will look like. It was genius of the designers to think of using the stage as part of the forthcoming sci fi movie Exmouth Alien Abduction.

The plot sounds good, too. It involves towns people being abducted into the spacecraft/performance stage and then brainwashed into believing anything they are told. Ultimately, they then try to ruin the town with ridiculous ideas! All this genius for only �400,000. Bargain.

Richard Benford

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