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.
Saturday at the Commodore
A short solo play from the award-winning Scottish playwright, in which an Aberdonian woman remembers a painful teenage betrayal.
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
Fifty-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.
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A Night in November
The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.
Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp explains it all
The acclaimed one-man show based on the life and writings of Quentin Crisp.
- Paperback
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misterman (2001 edition)
A strange and haunting monologue from the acclaimed Irish playwright.
Julie Burchill Is Away
A one-woman show based on the life and writings of the provocative columnist, writer and broadcaster, Julie Burchill.
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£7.99£6.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
A monologue by a master of the art - 100% pure high octane Bogosian.
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The Waiting List
A blackly comic monologue about a man under siege in the community where he grew up.
I Won't Dance - Don't Ask Me
An early short monologue play from Northern Irish writer Owen McCafferty.
Mongoose
A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.
Cold Comfort
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.
Brazil
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.
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