Plays to perform

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.

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Shakespeare's Will

Shakespeare's Will

By Vern Thiessen

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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Sessions

Sessions

By Ifeyinwa Frederick

A raw, funny, bittersweet play about the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy.

Scorch

Scorch

By Stacey Gregg

A touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, inspired by recent UK cases of 'gender fraud'.

Saturday at the Commodore

Saturday at the Commodore

By Rona Munro

A short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.

Published in volume Scot-Free
    Run

    Run

    By Stephen Laughton

    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.

    Rum and Vodka

    Rum and Vodka

    By Conor McPherson

    A short monologue play from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.

    Ross & Rachel

    Ross & Rachel

    By James Fritz

    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.

    Room 303

    Room 303

    By Enda Walsh

    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.

    Published in volume Enda Walsh Plays: Two
      The Road to Huntsville

      The Road to Huntsville

      By Stephanie Ridings

      A short play about a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row, who then finds herself crossing the line.

      Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp explains it all

      Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp explains it all

      By Tim Fountain

      The acclaimed one-man show based on the life and writings of Quentin Crisp.

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      The Real Deal

      The Real Deal

      By Tom Wentworth

      A short monologue play exploring the issue of benefits fraud, 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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        By debbie tucker green

        An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.

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