[1] The play starred Charlie Brooks, Simon Lipkin, Michael Fox, and Hugh Purves, and was produced by Paul Virides Productions at the Southwark Playhouse.

[2] An early draft of All in a Row was long-listed for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting,[3] and the play was chosen as one of the Bolton Octagon Theatre's Top Five in 2017.

Oates workshopped the script and puppetry with director Dominic Shaw, and Siân Kidd designed the puppet used for the character of Laurence.

[8] The play's main characters are: The play opens with Laurence watching Finding Nemo and begins with an intertwined pair of monologues: Tamora is giving a motivational talk at an all-girls' technology college about her heartbeat-transmitting product, the Heart to Heart, and Martin is describing an incident that occurred in a park in which Laurence attempted to bite a little girl.

The support worker, Gary, acts a conversational go-between for Martin and Tamora as they try to bring themselves to read a social story to Laurence detailing how he will be leaving home.

In the aftermath, Martin and Tamora call something of a truce, and they sit down as a family to read the social story and watch the end of Finding Nemo.

Laurence's abilities and needs as an autistic child are a central theme, and the play looks at stereotypes and mistakes that people make around disability and the autism spectrum.

[16] Writing for The Guardian, Miriam Gillinson gave the play four stars, calling it lively and truthful and saying that the puppet had a "human feel".

"[18] Saskia Baron of The Arts Desk gave the play a one-star rating, criticizing the puppet as a "redundant, clumsy distraction.

We understand that this has been controversial but within the aims of the project, and context of the piece, we support the decision by the writer and creative team on the show to use puppetry as a way to depict the character of Laurence.On press night for All in a Row, February 18, 2019, performer Paul Wady, founder of the Stealth Aspies Theatre Company, organized a protest outside of the theatre to condemn the use of a puppet to portray an autistic child.

"[24] In contrast, author and mother to four autistic children Sarah Ziegel praised the play for its "raw" and "honest" depiction of autism.