Cruise Control is a 2014 play by David Williamson.
[1] Three couples - one Australian, one English, one American - encounter each other on a cruise.
When they arrived on board, they discovered that the dining seat allocations were fixed for the cruise.
“You either dine with those people for seven nights in a row or you starve,” Williamson says.
“You’re thrust into a situation where you have to coexist with people you don’t know, and I thought it was a great dramatic situation, if people find out that they absolutely loathe each other and things go from bad to worse.”[2] In 2005 Williamson had written an article about a cruise trip he took which had attracted criticism.