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.

Showing 97-108 of 130 items.

Mongoose

A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.

Published in volume Singular Male Voices

    Cold Comfort

    A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

    Published in volume Singular Male Voices

      Brazil

      A blistering monologue set in Scotland in the near future, when Europe is at war with America, and Scotland suffers collateral damage in the clash of civilisations.

      Published in volume Singular Male Voices

        Jordan

        A short play that tells the true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy, Jordan, rather than have him taken away by his abusive father.

        Published in volume Singular Female Voices

          The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

          The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.

          Published in volume Singular Female Voices

            Unsuspecting Susan

            A monologue play about a middle-aged woman whose adult son has converted to Islam.

            Published in volume Singular Female Voices

              Leavings

              A short monologue play from the author of Jerusalem.

              Published in volume Jez Butterworth Plays: One

                The Naked Eye

                A short monologue play from the author of Jerusalem.

                Published in volume Jez Butterworth Plays: One

                  Duologue

                  Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.

                  Published in volume Who is Sylvia? and Duologue

                    Spacewang

                    A monologue play in which a teenage girl roams the streets of Withernsea in search of aliens.

                    Published in volume The Kitchen Sink

                      The Waiting List

                      A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.

                      Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

                        I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me

                        An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.

                        Published in volume Mojo Mickybo: Three Plays

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