Brand new online musical short released by David Hunter & Caroline Kay

We may be without our theatres but creative juices are still well and truly flowing, as proved by Waitress star David Hunter and singer-songwriter Caroline Kay who have written a brand new musical during lockdown.

The Space Between has been composed, created and filmed in isolation, with Hunter and Kay never having met in person. It has been released online today to raise money for the Theatre Artists Fund, as previously reported about with Sam Mendes at the helm.

Hunter said: "I've always wanted to write a musical, and I reached out to Caroline with the beginnings of an idea for a Lockdown creation...We started on the 14th of May and basically had everything written in three weeks. Then began the planning, filming, mixing and editing - which took much longer than the writing."

Kay said: "Lockdown has affected all relationships in different ways and we wanted to explore what these effects might look like for one fictional couple... We communicated solely over Whatsapp and I think we did a great job of expressing our thoughts and opinions – which can be a hard thing to do in any collaboration, but particularly one so new that neither of you have even met!"

To watch the full musical, please see below: