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.
Dreaming and Drowning
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.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane
A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
Decade
Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.
By variousTen 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£12.79Death of a Cyclist
By Steve WatersA poignant, bleakly comic short monologue told by a woman killed in a cycling accident.
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£2.99£2.39
Dean McBride
By Sonya HaleA 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.
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£3.99£3.19
Daughter
By Adam LazarusA darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Cold Comfort
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 VoicesBurgerz
A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.
Published in volume Contemporary Plays by Black British WritersBunny
By Jack ThorneAn exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Brazil
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 VoicesBoy Parts (stage version)
By Eliza Clark Adapted by Gillian GreerA pitch-black psychological thriller based on the critically acclaimed debut novel by Eliza Clark. Premiered at Soho Theatre, London.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79
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