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.
In a Vulnerable Place
A monologue documenting Steve Waters' own journey from the Norfolk Broads to the steppes of Mongolia to explore, first hand, what is happening to the natural world and the human heart.
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£3.99£3.19
small hours
A collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell, dissecting the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.
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£2.99£2.39
Death of a Cyclist
A poignant, bleakly comic short monologue told by a woman killed in a cycling accident.
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£2.99£2.39
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.
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£2.99£2.39
Finsbury 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.
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£2.99£2.39
Limbo
A monologue play in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to.
About a Goth
A short play about a young man who volunteers in old people's homes, and suffers paroxyms of love and hate for the residents.
Notes for First Time Astronauts
A comic monologue warning of the perils of self-abuse in zero gravity conditions.
Saturday at the Commodore
A short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.
A Night in November
The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.
misterman (2001 edition)
A strange and haunting monologue from the acclaimed Irish playwright.
Mongoose
A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.
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