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.
Shakespeare's Will
Vern Thiessen, winner of the Governor General's Award for his play Einstein's Gift, gives a voice to one of the most silent characters in history: Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare.
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Decade
Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.
Ten 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£12.79Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
By Jo CarsonFifty-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.
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15 Heroines
15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid
By variousDrawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of fifteen classical heroines in a series of new monologues for the twenty-first century.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.19First Time
A hilarious and heartbreaking true story that smashes through the stigma and shame of HIV, to present an uplifting and inspirational guide to staying positive in a negative world.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.19Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
A monologue by a master of the art - 100% pure high octane Bogosian.
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Swimming to Cambodia
Spalding Gray's extraordinary memoir/monologue, based on his experiences as an actor in the film The Killing Fields.
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The 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£10.39Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives
Eight Monologues
Created by Vicky Featherstone By variousA collection of monologues that document, remember and bear witness to a century of struggle for progress and equality for women in the United Kingdom.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Bloody Elle
A heart-warming and belly-achingly funny story about falling in love for the very first time.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)
By Rob MadgeA joyous, chaotic, autobiographical play telling the story of actor, writer and social-media sensation Rob Madge as they set out to recreate a Disney parade they performed as a twelve-year-old for their Grandma.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Eight
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£9.59
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