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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Sink

A play of two voices for one actor, about memory, catastrophe and sacrifice.

Idyll

A captivating short play about rural Britain, premiered by Pentabus Theatre in 2021.

The Wife of Cyncoed

A charming and open-hearted one-woman play about self-discovery later in life.

Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp explains it all

The acclaimed one-man show based on the life and writings of Quentin Crisp.

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Joanne

Five of the most exciting voices in theatre explore the pressures on our public services as one young woman buckles under pressures of her own.

random

An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.

Run

Stephen Laughton's one-man play about a gay Jewish seventeen-year-old explores what it means to love, to lose, and how to grow from a boy into a man.

good dog

A theatrical monologue that chronicles growing up in a multicultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control.

Sugar Baby

A one-man comedy-drama about a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff, from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris.

Hanna

A 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.

Sunrise

An honest, tender-hearted and uproariously funny story from actress, comedian, writer and doodler Jessie Cave – with colour illustrations throughout.

Original Death Rabbit

A painfully funny play, shining a light on one woman's struggle with the dark side of the internet

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