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.
Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp explains it all
The acclaimed one-man show based on the life and writings of Quentin Crisp.
- Paperback
£8.99£7.19There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Road to Huntsville
A short play about a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row, who then finds herself crossing the line.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
Room 303
A short monologue inspired by the Third Epistle of John and first produced by the Bush Theatre, London, as part of the Sixty-Six Books season in 2011.
Ross & Rachel
A dark and uncompromising play about romance, expectation and mortality, James Fritz's Ross & Rachel takes an unflinching look at the myths of modern love.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Rum and Vodka
A short monologue play from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Run
Stephen Laughton's one-man play about a gay Jewish seventeen-year-old explores what it means to love, to lose, and how to grow from a boy into a man.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Saturday at the Commodore
By Rona MunroA short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.
Published in volume Scot-FreeScorch
By Stacey GreggA touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, inspired by recent UK cases of 'gender fraud'.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Sessions
A raw, funny, bittersweet play about the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Shakespeare'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.
- Paperback£21.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Shed
A short monologue play exploring the power that a carer can exert over a wheelchair user's life, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.
Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
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