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.
HEART
A raw and honest exploration of love, loss, and self-discovery. The debut play by acclaimed actor Jade Anouka.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Harm
A thrilling and razor-sharp twisted comedy on the corrosive effects of social media and isolation.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Hanna
By Sam PotterA funny, heartfelt and compelling new play that asks what family means in a modern society, delicately weaving in questions of racial identity, economic privilege, and the lottery of birth.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Hamish
By Jack ThorneA short monologue play exploring the challenges facing a young wheelchair user, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.
Published in volume CripTales: Six MonologuesThe Half Of It
By Karen CoganA darkly lyrical monologue about a life, lived unseen. Winner of the Stewart Parker Award in 2018.
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£4.99£3.99
Gypsy Girl
By Laura LomasA monologue first performed by Laura Lomas at Soho Theatre, London, on 5 October 2009 as part of Paines Plough's LATER programme.
Published in volume Bird and other monologues for young womenThe Good Thief
A monologue play about a petty criminal who is punished by his conscience when he becomes involved in a bungled kidnap.
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£4.99£3.99
good dog
By Arinzé KeneA theatrical monologue that chronicles growing up in a multicultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Glee & Me
By Stuart SladeA touching drama about a teenage girl diagnosed with a brain tumour, an unexpectedly optimistic portrayal of love and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59A Girl's Bedroom
By Enda WalshA short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.
Published in volume ArlingtonFor All I Care
By Alan HarrisA fast-moving, touchingly funny play about two very different women, both having a very bad day.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Five Years with the White Man
By Eloka Obi and Saul BoyerA startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.
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£4.99£3.99
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