All At Sea
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'I keep telling you, it's different this time. Bad luck, but not this time. We'll be unshackled. Start again.'
Where do you turn when you've got £100,000 of credit card debt and a £400,000 mortgage? For Colin, the answer is simple: fake your death in a canoeing accident in the North Sea. But as his 'widow' Deborah enacts a complex plan to secure his life-insurance payout, the lies begin to take their toll...
Inspired by real events, All At Sea is a witty and thrilling play about trying to keep the romance alive when everybody thinks you're dead. Alison Carr's play premiered at Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in 2026, directed by Maria Crocker.
This volume also includes a short one-person play, The Soaking of Vera Shrimp, which premiered at Live Theatre in 2014 and was subsequently performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Alison Carr is a writer for theatre, audio and screen.
Theatre credits include: All At Sea (Live Theatre & Stephen Joseph Theatre, 2026); A Street Like This (Unfolding Theatre; winner of Performance of the Year at the North East Culture Awards 2023); Until It's Gone (Òran Mór's A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Stellar Quines, Traverse Theatre); Tuesday (National Theatre Connections Festival 2020 & 2021); The Last Quiz Night On Earth (Box of Tricks, 2020); Caterpillar (Theatre503, London, 2018; finalist for the Theatre503 Playwriting Award); Iris (Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016; winner of Writer of the Year, North East Culture Awards 2017); Fat Alice (Òran Mór's A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Traverse Theatre, Aberdeen Performing Arts); and The Soaking of Vera Shrimp (winner of the Live Theatre/The Empty Space Bursary Award).
Audio credits include: We Step Outside And Start To Dance (ACE, National Lottery, Winner - OnComm Award); Stuff (Painkiller Podcast); Dolly Would (BBC Radio 4).
Her play Birdie was a Finalist for the Women's Prize for Playwriting 2022.
Her short film Doppelganger is part of BBC Three's 'Long Story Short' series.
