This is Yeast Nation: an above-ground swimming pool filled to the brim with beach balls.

Jan-the-Elder (Chris Comanescu) is King of the Yeasts.

Jan-the-Wise (Sam Varghese) reads out the Strictures.

Jan-the-Wretched (Madalynn Baez) will be punished for eating too much.

Jan-the-Unnamed (Grace Zieman) invites the audience to 'Hear the Song'.

Jan-the-Sweet (Emerson Cobbley) discovers she has a 'Burnin' Soul'.

Jan-the-Second-Oldest (Keaton Payne) vows 'Change the World' around Sweet.

Little sister Jan-the-Sly (Emily Gale) plots against her father (Elder) and brother (Second)

Second rejects Sweet as 'Not the Yeast You Used to Be'.

Second shares the life-giving muck with Sweet

...as they fall in love.

'Stasis is the Membrane'.

Wise forces Sweet to be his Date.

Sly reveals the illegal muck to the Yeast Nation.

All will be revealed... in Act Two!

Sly convinces Wise not to be 'A Traitor to Love'.

The Chorus remind us that 'Love Equals Pain'...

...as the Unnamed and Sweet agree.

Jan-the-Elder rises to the afterlife in 'Doom-Love-Doom'.

"Yeast Nation" reminds us that 'The World Won't Wait'.