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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Superhoe

By Nicôle Lecky

The hit stage play behind the BAFTA-winning BBC TV drama series Mood, about a twenty-something who spends all her time on social media while dreaming of becoming a success.

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Original Death Rabbit

By Rose Heiney

A painfully funny play, shining a light on one woman's struggle with the dark side of the internet

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Drip

By Tom Wells By (composer) Matthew Robins

A one-man musical comedy about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds himself in deep water when he joins a synchronised swimming team, even though he can't swim.

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Sunrise

By Jessie Cave

An honest, tender-hearted and uproariously funny story from actress, comedian, writer and doodler Jessie Cave – with colour illustrations throughout.

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Drip Feed

By Karen Cogan

An infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.

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The Half Of It

By Karen Cogan

A darkly lyrical monologue about a life, lived unseen. Winner of the Stewart Parker Award in 2018.

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Finsbury Park

By Stephen Jeffreys

A short autobiographical monologue, first performed as part of the Come to Where I'm From festival at the Park Theatre, London, in 2016.

Ebook~~£2.99~~ £2.39
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Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives

Eight Monologues

Created by Vicky Featherstone By various

A collection of monologues that document, remember and bear witness to a century of struggle for progress and equality for women in the United Kingdom.

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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.

Ebook~~£3.99~~ £3.19
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Tituba

By Winsome Pinnock

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.