[1] Themed on "how power really works in the world",[2] it is a collaboration between film-maker Adam Curtis and theatre company Punchdrunk, with original music composed by Damon Albarn and performed by the Kronos Quartet.

[3] Visitors wandered among sets and watched a short film created from archival footage, weaving together multiple stories about American international and cultural influence beginning in the year 1959, touching on the Cold War, Rock Hudson and Doris Day, Lou Reed, Saddam Hussein, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the AIDS epidemic.

[7] Featured in the story are Eldridge Cleaver, Doris Day, Little Eva, Philip K Dick, Enos (a chimpanzee sent into space), Sidney Gottlieb, Rock Hudson, Saddam Hussein, Richard Nixon, Lee Harvey Oswald, Lou Reed, Mobutu Sese Seko, B F Skinner, Phil Spector, Tina Turner and Frank Wisner.

[9] Sound and Show Control equipment were supplied by Bradford-based The Stage Management Company (Uk) Ltd who have also collaborated with Punchdrunk on their Duchess of Malfi and Dr Who: Crash of the Elysium projects.

The production consisted of elaborate walk-through sets depicting first scenes from an idyllic midcentury America and then a series of decrepit offices, hospital wards, and prison cells taken from horror films.