Plays for One Performer

Discover fringe-theatre shows turned award-winning TV series, memoir-monologues, writer-actor collaborations and so many more excellent examples of solo shows in our collection below.

If you're a theatre-maker interested in creating your own solo show, there's no better place to start than with Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide, by Lisa Carroll and Milly Thomas – both experienced solo-show writers, who teach popular workshops on getting to grips with the form.

Discover 10 top tips to make your solo show memorable, an extract from Lisa and Milly's book over on our blog.

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Saturday at the Commodore

By Rona Munro

A short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.

Published in volume Scot-Free

Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

By Jo Carson

Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.

Paperback£13.99
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Flyin' West and Other Plays

By Pearl Cleage

A collection of work for the stage that provides a remarkable and penetrating look at the African-American experience over the last 100 years.

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A Night in November

By Marie Jones

The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.

Published in volume Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays

Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays

By Tony Kushner

A wide-ranging collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.

Paperback£19.99
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Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp explains it all

By Tim Fountain

The acclaimed one-man show based on the life and writings of Quentin Crisp.

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misterman (2001 edition)

By Enda Walsh

A strange and haunting monologue from the acclaimed Irish playwright.

Published in volume bedbound & misterman: two plays

Julie Burchill Is Away

By Tim Fountain

A one-woman show based on the life and writings of the provocative columnist, writer and broadcaster, Julie Burchill.

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Wake Up And Smell The Coffee

By Eric Bogosian

A monologue by a master of the art - 100% pure high octane Bogosian.

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Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

By Owen McCafferty

Three astute, savvy early plays from Belfast writer Owen McCafferty.

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The Waiting List

By Owen McCafferty

A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.

Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

By Owen McCafferty

An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.

Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

Mongoose

By Peter Harness

A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.

Published in volume Singular Male Voices

Cold Comfort

By Owen McCafferty

A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

Published in volume Singular Male Voices

Brazil

By Ronan O'Donnell

A blistering monologue set in Scotland in the near future, when Europe is at war with America, and Scotland suffers collateral damage in the clash of civilisations.

Published in volume Singular Male Voices