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.

Showing 13-24 of 126 items.

Brazil

1m

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

    Brute

    1f, plus 5f 1m voice-overs

    A solo show about a rather twisted schoolgirl.

    Bunny

    1f

    An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer.

    Burgerz

    1m/f

    A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.

     

      Cold Comfort

      1m

      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

        Daughter

        1m

        A darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity.

        Dean McBride

        1m

        A 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.

        Death of a Cyclist

        1f

        A poignant, bleakly comic short monologue told by a woman killed in a cycling accident.

        Decade

        Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.

        15 actors for twenty short plays with varying cast

        Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.

        Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane

        1f

        A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.

        Dreaming and Drowning

        1m

        An 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.

        Drip

        1m

        A 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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        Bill Bryson, Adapted by Tim Whitnall

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        Alexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate Summerscale

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        Henrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard Eyre

        Tom Wells

        Jeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey