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.
The Road to Huntsville
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
Tituba
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.
- Ebook
£2.99£2.39
Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives
Eight Monologues
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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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Finsbury Park
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
Drip Feed
By Karen CoganAn infectious, dark comedy monologue play about the messiness of being young(ish), female and queer.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
The Half Of It
By Karen CoganA darkly lyrical monologue about a life, lived unseen. Winner of the Stewart Parker Award in 2018.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Sunrise
By Jessie CaveAn honest, tender-hearted and uproariously funny story from actress, comedian, writer and doodler Jessie Cave – with colour illustrations throughout.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99
Drip
By Tom Wells By (composer) Matthew RobinsA 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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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Original Death Rabbit
By Rose HeineyA painfully funny play, shining a light on one woman's struggle with the dark side of the internet
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99A Hundred Words for Snow
A play about a teenage girl's solo journey to the North Pole with her father's ashes.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Superhoe
By Nicôle LeckyThe 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.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99
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