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.
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.
- Ebook
£2.99£2.39
Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives
Eight Monologues
A collection of monologues that document, remember and bear witness to a century of struggle for progress and equality for women in the United Kingdom.
- Paperback
£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Spacewang
By Tom WellsA monologue play in which a teenage girl roams the streets of Withernsea in search of aliens.
Published in volume The Kitchen SinkSt Nicholas
An eccentric, teasing yarn from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Stacy
By Jack ThorneA darkly confessional monologue for one male performer and a slide projector.
- Ebook
£4.99£3.99
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
By Jo CarsonFifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.
- Paperback£13.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Sugar Baby
By Alan HarrisA one-man comedy-drama about a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff, from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Sunrise
By Jessie CaveAn honest, tender-hearted and uproariously funny story from actress, comedian, writer and doodler Jessie Cave – with colour illustrations throughout.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99
Superhoe
By Nicôle LeckyThe hit stage play behind the BAFTA-winning BBC TV drama series Mood, about a twenty-something who spends all her time on social media while dreaming of becoming a success.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Swimming to Cambodia
Spalding Gray's extraordinary memoir/monologue, based on his experiences as an actor in the film The Killing Fields.
- Paperback£12.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
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.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99
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