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.
Duologue
Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.
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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.
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£7.99£6.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£7.99£6.39Decade
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£12.79Leavings
A short monologue play from the author of Jerusalem.
Published in volume Jez Butterworth Plays: OneThe Naked Eye
A short monologue play from the author of Jerusalem.
Published in volume Jez Butterworth Plays: OneSpacewang
By Tom WellsA monologue play in which a teenage girl roams the streets of Withernsea in search of aliens.
Published in volume The Kitchen SinkShakespeare'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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Misterman
By Enda WalshA virtuosic study of one man's descent into religious mania in small-town Ireland. This edition was published alongside the 2012 production at the National Theatre starring Cillian Murphy.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Angels
A suspicious death at the workplace and loner security guard Nick Prentice is hauled in for interrogation. An uproarious underworld whodunit, Ronan O’Donnell’s single-hander reworks the hardboiled crime thriller for our times.
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£7.99£6.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£7.99£6.39On the Evils of Tobacco
By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen MulrineA bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.
Published in volume Chekhov: ShortsRoom 303
By Enda WalshA 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.
Published in volume Enda Walsh Plays: TwoBird
By Laura LomasA cutting-edge monologue that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain, from one of the country's most exciting young playwrights.
Published in volume Bird and other monologues for young women
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