The four performers sing and play guitars, keyboard and/or a variety of unconnected characters.
Apocalypse Slough will follow a group of seemingly unconnected characters who find their lives unexpectedly entwinedwhen the planet is threatened by an eight-mile wide comet.
As a text, the idea is simple: Stephens has taken all the principle characters from Bizet's opera and reimagined them as unconnected characters wandering through an unnamed modern city.
What begins as a historical take on the police procedural slowly expands to include the stories of two apparently unconnected characters: the first a surgeon's apprentice lured into debt and depravity; the second a girl condemned to the workhouse where the sadistic guard derives sexual pleasure from tormenting the inmates.
He intended to set the entire poem, but gave up, defeated by Longfellow's "numerous but unconnected characters".
Several of the stories involve the Seabee, Luther Billis, who in the musical would be used for comic relief and also to tie together episodes involving otherwise unconnected characters.
But the executives did wonder how the seemingly unconnected scenes and characters would be tied together.
For example, in four unconnected incidents, leading characters are almost knocked down after dark by cyclists speeding along the pavement without lights.
Literally dozens of contemporary British plays, from Rebecca Prichard's 1994 Essex Girls to Simon Stephens's 2008 Pornography, present audiences with seemingly unconnected stories and/or characters, inviting us to find their meaning in what links them up (or, in some cases, doesn't).
As a creation unconnected to any existing BBC character or series, the audience for Jamie Kane is far from assured; previous players of games connected to BBC series Spooks and Attachments "numbered only in the hundreds", according to Walpole.
In June, after six months of editing, a New York video artist named Jonathan McIntosh finally released his opus: a six-minute video depicting an ill-fated relationship between lead characters of two unconnected TV shows: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight.
