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Seasalt
Paperback
Gifts & Stationery GeneralPlaywriting
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Our blood, our sweat, our tears - same salinity as the sea. Maybe that's why we grieve so hard. We're made for tides. Not endings.
Seasalt is a fierce, funny, and unflinching new stage play about five women, a fading coastal town, and the quiet storms we carry through the years.
In Harnsey-on-Sea - where salt clings to every windowpane and the past is never far below the surface - the village hall is set to be demolished. But bricks and mortar aren't all that's about to fall.
Grieving Margaret keeps the tea urns boiling and her sorrow buried deep. Eileen carries a lifetime of stories - and a love she never let go. Babs, landlady and gatekeeper, is sitting on a secret she's not ready to pour. Jo's new in town, searching for meaning. And Sylvia? Sylvia's done staying silent.
As protests rise and truths are dragged from the deep, Seasalt becomes a story about grief, memory, womanhood, silence, survival, and the sea that takes and gives in equal measure. Watched over by the mysterious Lady of the Tides, this is a tale of reckoning - where the personal is political, and community is built as much from shared grief as shared joy.
Told with biting humour, warmth, and emotional honesty, Seasalt captures the quiet poetry of ordinary lives in extraordinary times.
This is bold, female-led new writing - created for actors hungry for roles with truth, grit, and heart. It features:
Five substantial, emotionally rich roles for women
Five nuanced, well-crafted roles for men
A true ensemble structure - no single lead, no weak parts
Themes of grief, motherhood, community, protest, secrets, love, folklore, and endurance
Perfect for drama schools, theatre companies, new writing festivals, university courses, community theatre groups, and actors seeking strong monologues or contemporary scenes with weight and depth.
Seasalt is a love letter to working-class women, to holding it together when everything falls apart, and to the kind of strength that isn't always loud - but always lingers.
If you love Yerma, Nine Night, Emilia, The Ferryman, or Chimerica - then Seasalt isn't just a play you'll remember.
It's one you'll feel in your bones.
Are you ready to step into the tide?
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