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Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 23 January 1982
ACT ONE Scene One: Outside, on the coldest night of the year, the wind is howling. But a noise more unearthly still emanates from the large round building where 13,000 people have spent the last two hours, trapped. The low moan of children out for blood.
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