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.
I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me
An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.
Idyll
A captivating short play about rural Britain, premiered by Pentabus Theatre in 2021.
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In a Vulnerable Place
A monologue documenting Steve Waters' own journey from the Norfolk Broads to the steppes of Mongolia to explore, first hand, what is happening to the natural world and the human heart.
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£3.99£3.19
Isolated But Open
Voices from Across The Shutdown
Twelve new monologues written in response to the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 as part of Papatango's scheme to inspire creativity and share brilliant new stories.
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Joanne
Five of the most exciting voices in theatre explore the pressures on our public services as one young woman buckles under pressures of her own.
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£8.99£7.19Add to basketEbook£8.99£7.19Jordan
By Anna Reynolds With Moira BuffiniA short play that tells the true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy, Jordan, rather than have him taken away by his abusive father.
Published in volume Singular Female VoicesJulie Burchill Is Away
By Tim FountainA one-woman show based on the life and writings of the provocative columnist, writer and broadcaster, Julie Burchill.
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The Kiss
By Zoe CooperA tender, funny and beautifully observed study of lives in limbo, and a glimmer of hope for what lies ahead. First performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.
Published in volume Inside/OutsideKitchen
By Enda WalshA short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.
Published in volume ArlingtonLady Dealer
A mile-a-minute, one-person poem play about a young female drug dealer, exploring forgiveness, the exhaustion of trying, and mistaking self-destruction for self-preservation. Premiered at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Last Letters Home
By Matt HartleyA short monologue play for a female performer.
Published in volume Here I BelongLava
One woman's journey into her own past becomes inextricably linked with the tides of global history in this wickedly funny, strikingly lyrical and explosive debut play. Winner of the 2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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