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.
Maisie Says She Loves Me
A one-man play about love, inheritance and not letting your feelings show.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
good dog
A theatrical monologue that chronicles growing up in a multicultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Last Letters Home
By Matt HartleyA short monologue play for a female performer.
Published in volume Here I BelongMr Incredible
A brutal one-man play about modern love and old-fashioned entitlement.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Scorch
By Stacey GreggA touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, inspired by recent UK cases of 'gender fraud'.
- Paperback
£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79A Girl's Bedroom
By Enda WalshA short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.
Published in volume ArlingtonKitchen
By Enda WalshA short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.
Published in volume ArlingtonThe Encounter
By Simon McBurney and CompliciteA solo show tracing one man's journey into the Amazon rainforest and to the limits of human consciousness, inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu.
- Paperback
£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Mr Incredible (VAULT version)
A monologue about love and entitlement by Camilla Whitehill, author of Where Do Little Birds Go?, who was described by The Times as 'a writer of huge promise'.
Published in volume Plays from VAULTPrimadonna
A one-woman play that lays bare the world of the celebrity PA as a young first-timer navigates impossible tasks, difficult conversations and fearsome passive aggression.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
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 OwnJoanne
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
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