Plays to perform

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.

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Brazil

Brazil

By Ronan O'Donnell

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
    Brute

    Brute

    By Izzy Tennyson

    A solo show about a rather twisted schoolgirl.

    Bunny

    Bunny

    By Jack Thorne

    An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer.

    Burgerz

    Burgerz

    By Travis Alabanza

    A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.

     

    Published in volume Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers
      Cold Comfort

      Cold Comfort

      By Owen McCafferty

      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
        Daughter

        Daughter

        By Adam Lazarus

        A darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity.

        Dean McBride

        Dean McBride

        By Sonya Hale

        A vivid and poetic monologue play about deprivation, loss and redemption through love, telling the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.

        Death of a Cyclist

        Death of a Cyclist

        By Steve Waters

        A poignant, bleakly comic short monologue told by a woman killed in a cycling accident.

        Decade

        Decade

        Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.

        By various

        Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.

        Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane

        Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane

        By Carys D. Coburn

        A play about losing someone close to you, about the human need to remember and connect.

        Dreaming and Drowning

        Dreaming and Drowning

        By Kwame Owusu

        An intimate and visceral play that dives into the mind of a young Black queer man wrestling with anxiety. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023.

        Drip

        Drip

        By Tom Wells By (composer) Matthew Robins

        A one-man musical comedy about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds himself in deep water when he joins a synchronised swimming team, even though he can't swim.

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