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.
Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane
A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.
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£3.99£3.19
For All I Care
A fast-moving, touchingly funny play about two very different women, both having a very bad day.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Zoo and Twelve Comic Monologues for Women
By Lily BevanA wildly inventive comedy drama about courage, female friendship and flamingos. This volume also includes twelve comic monologues for female performers.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Madame Ovary
The heartbreaking and hilarious true story of the author's own experience of ovarian cancer.
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£4.99£3.99
Daughter
By Adam LazarusA darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99Isolated But Open
Voices from Across The Shutdown
By variousTwelve new monologues written in response to the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 as part of Papatango's scheme to inspire creativity and share brilliant new stories.
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Three Kings
A heartbreaking and hilarious play for a solo actor about fathers and sons, the gifts and burdens of inheritance, and the unfathomable puzzle of human relationships.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Thunderbox
A short monologue play about a pregnant wheelchair user facing a tough decision, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.
Published in volume CripTales: Six MonologuesAudition
By Mat FraserA short monologue play about a disabled actor facing up to the traumatic experience of auditioning, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.
Published in volume CripTales: Six MonologuesPaper Knickers
By Jackie HaganA bold, witty monologue play exploring what it is to be an amputee, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.
Published in volume CripTales: Six MonologuesThe Shed
A short monologue play exploring the power that a carer can exert over a wheelchair user's life, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.
Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
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