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.
Burgerz
A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.
Cold Comfort
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.
CripTales: Six Monologues
Six fictional monologues portraying some very real experiences of disabled people in Britain, commissioned to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.
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£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£10.99£8.79Daughter
By Adam LazarusA darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Dean McBride
By Sonya HaleA vivid and poetic monologue play about deprivation, loss and redemption through love, telling the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.
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£3.99£3.19
Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays
By Tony KushnerA wide-ranging collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.
- Paperback£19.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Death of a Cyclist
By Steve WatersA poignant, bleakly comic short monologue told by a woman killed in a cycling accident.
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£2.99£2.39
Decade
Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.
By variousTen years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.
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£15.99£12.79Add to basketEbook£15.99£12.79Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane
A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.
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£3.99£3.19
Dreaming and Drowning
By Kwame OwusuAn intimate and visceral play that dives into the mind of a young Black queer man wrestling with anxiety. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Drip
By Tom Wells By (composer) Matthew RobinsA one-man musical comedy about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds himself in deep water when he joins a synchronised swimming team, even though he can't swim.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Drip Feed
By Karen CoganAn infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.
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£4.99£3.99
Duologue
Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.
Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and DuologueEight
By Ella HicksonEight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59The Encounter
By Simon McBurney and CompliciteA solo show tracing one man's journey into the Amazon rainforest and to the limits of human consciousness, inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39England & Son
By Ed EdwardsA one-man play about disaster capitalism, empire, Thatcherite politics, stolen youth, stolen wealth and a working-class boy who just wants his dad to smile at him. First performed by the celebrated political comedian Mark Thomas in Paines Plough's Roundabout during the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Fanboy
A five-star hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, Fanboy is a love-hate letter to pop culture and nostalgia, about a thirty-something, self-confessed nerd obsessed with Star Wars and Nintendo.
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£4.99£3.99
Far Gone
A profoundly moving play about a young Ugandan boy's journey from childhood innocence to child soldier, seen through the eyes of those that love him and those that betray him.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99
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