In this tale of lust and betrayal, not a fully fledged theatre piece but a performance with songs, they serve their purpose.
More than $2m dollars later, the project is a fully-fledged piece of hardware that is impressing developers and gamers the world over.
Many pieces by this Cornish-born composer, who is 40 this year, seem to follow some undisclosed dramatic scenario - so a fully fledged music theatre piece seems a natural progression.
"I was 30, a fully fledged man, I wasn't a twinkie kid.
The Barnard Project has had a stellar lineup of dance makers over the six years of its existence, but working with students is a different matter from working with fully fledged artists, and the pieces often look tentative or inconclusive.
Pierrot Lunaire, neither concert piece nor fully fledged theatre, but something poised nervously between, systematised that atonal revolution and defined the new modernism.
The sitcom has briefly returned before – in 2009 a mini-series, Back to Earth, aired on Dave – but in a format that was more clip-show/audition piece than fully fledged relaunch.
At times it seems a little too staid and regimented to be truly nonsensical, and less like a piece of fully fledged theatre than a bespoke journey through the Selfridges' Christmas window display organised by a canny event management team for jaded customers.
Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul This film from Thai director Joe Weera-sethasul has to be the most daring, and strangest movie of the year: I'm still not sure if it's just a weirdo cult piece or a fully fledged masterpiece.
Nowhere is the director's restraint more apparent than the film's ambiguous ending, which reiterates both Partisan's strength as a mood piece and its limitations as a work of fully fledged narrative.
