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.
Zoo and Twelve Comic Monologues for Women
A wildly inventive comedy drama about courage, female friendship and flamingos. This volume also includes twelve comic monologues for female performers.
- Paperback
£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Woman Caught Unaware
By Annie FoxA searing examination of the culture of body-shaming, exploring how images of women are represented in art and social media.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
The Wife of Cyncoed
By Matt HartleyA charming and open-hearted one-woman play about self-discovery later in life.
- Ebook
£7.99£6.39
Where I'm From
By Laura LomasA monologue play about a woman on the day of her release from prison.
Published in volume Bird and other monologues for young womenWake Up And Smell The Coffee
A monologue by a master of the art - 100% pure high octane Bogosian.
- Paperback£12.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Waiting List
A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.
Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three PlaysUnsuspecting Susan
A monologue play about a middle-aged woman whose adult son has converted to Islam.
Published in volume Singular Female VoicesTuesdays at Tesco's
A touching one-person play about a person's true identity, the first English-language adaptation of Emmanuel Darley's hit play, Le Mardi à Monoprix.
- Paperback
£7.99£6.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£7.99£6.39Tituba
Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.
- Ebook
£2.99£2.39
Thunderbox
A short monologue play about a pregnant wheelchair user facing a tough decision, 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 MonologuesThrown
By Jodi GrayA child-psychologist attempts to record what she's spent her whole life trying to forget, as the memories of former patients collide with her own.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Three Kings
A heartbreaking and hilarious play for a solo actor about fathers and sons, the gifts and burdens of inheritance, and the unfathomable puzzle of human relationships.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99
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