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.
Eight
Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Limbo
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.
Published in volume St Petersburg and other playsrandom
An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99My Name is Rachel Corrie
The moving account of the life and early death of a young female activist, adapted from her own writings.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Jordan
By Anna Reynolds With Moira BuffiniA 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 VoicesThe 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 VoicesUnsuspecting Susan
A monologue play about a middle-aged woman whose adult son has converted to Islam.
Published in volume Singular Female VoicesSwimming to Cambodia
Spalding Gray's extraordinary memoir/monologue, based on his experiences as an actor in the film The Killing Fields.
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Bombshells
Six funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Mongoose
A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.
Published in volume Singular Male VoicesCold 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 VoicesBrazil
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
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