It’s been almost a year since my play The Seagull Has Landed was selected as one of the winners in the national Power Plays competition. Now it’s taken flight again.

The four-hander, which won a staged reading in Blackpool last July, has now been chosen as one of 11 plays shortlisted to become the next production in Ambassador Cruise Line’s Theatre At Sea programme in 2026.

The next stage is a reading on board Ambassador’s luxurious Ambition ship while it’s docked in Liverpool in September, and the final winner will be revealed in December at an event hosted by Peel Entertainment in Tilbury Docks in London.

It’s always fantastic when something whose moment you thought had passed gets a new lease of life, and I can’t wait to see what the on-board performers do with it in Liverpool.

Watch this space for further news…