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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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.

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.

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.

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.

Daughter

Daughter

By Adam Lazarus

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

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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
    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
      Bunny

      Bunny

      By Jack Thorne

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

      Brute

      Brute

      By Izzy Tennyson

      A solo show about a rather twisted schoolgirl.

      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
        Boy Parts

        Boy Parts (stage version)

        By Eliza Clark Adapted by Gillian Greer

        A pitch-black psychological thriller based on the critically acclaimed debut novel by Eliza Clark. Premiered at Soho Theatre, London.

        Boo

        Boo

        By Jack Thorne

        A powerful and beautifully observed short play for one actor, exploring the impact of the newly established National Health Service on working people's lives in the 1940s and 50s.

        Published in volume Jack Thorne Plays: Two

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