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.
Gypsy Girl
A monologue first performed by Laura Lomas at Soho Theatre, London, on 5 October 2009 as part of Paines Plough's LATER programme.
Where I'm From
A monologue play about a woman on the day of her release from prison.
Nightwatchman
A British Sri Lankan cricketer prepares for the innings of her life for England against Sri Lanka at Lord’s.
- Ebook
£6.99£5.59
One Way Street
A one-man show set in eastern Berlin in 1995, in which Flannery tells us his life story in the form of a guide to the city.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
The Price of a Fish Supper
A short play about a man whose fortunes have declined along with the Scottish fishing industry in which he has worked all his life.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
St Nicholas
An eccentric, teasing yarn from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Rum and Vodka
A short monologue play from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
The Good Thief
A monologue play about a petty criminal who is punished by his conscience when he becomes involved in a bungled kidnap.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Stacy
A darkly confessional monologue for one male performer and a slide projector.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
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£8.79
Joanne
Five of the most exciting voices in theatre explore the pressures on our public services as one young woman buckles under pressures of her own.
- Paperback
£8.99£7.19Add to basketEbook£8.99£7.19
All On Her Own
A powerfully atmospheric one-woman play, All On Her Own tells the story of Rosemary who, alone at midnight in London, has a secret burden to share that is both heartbreaking and sinister.
Published in volume Harlequinade & All On Her Own
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