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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Notes for First Time Astronauts

Notes for First Time Astronauts

By Tom Wells

A comic monologue warning of the perils of self-abuse in zero gravity conditions.

Published in volume Me, As A Penguin
    Eight

    Eight

    By Ella Hickson

    Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage.

    Limbo

    Limbo

    By Declan Feenan

    A monologue play in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to.

    Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays
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      By debbie tucker green

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

      My Name is Rachel Corrie

      My Name is Rachel Corrie

      By Rachel Corrie Edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner

      The moving account of the life and early death of a young female activist, adapted from her own writings.

      Jordan

      Jordan

      By Anna Reynolds With Moira Buffini

      A short play that tells the true story of Shirley Jones, who kills her baby boy, Jordan, rather than have him taken away by his abusive father.

      Published in volume Singular Female Voices
        The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

        The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

        By Catherine Johnson

        The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.

        Published in volume Singular Female Voices
          Unsuspecting Susan

          Unsuspecting Susan

          By Stewart Permutt

          A monologue play about a middle-aged woman whose adult son has converted to Islam.

          Published in volume Singular Female Voices
            Swimming to Cambodia

            Swimming to Cambodia

            By Spalding Gray

            Spalding Gray's extraordinary memoir/monologue, based on his experiences as an actor in the film The Killing Fields.

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            Bombshells

            Bombshells

            By Joanna Murray-Smith

            Six funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life.

            Mongoose

            Mongoose

            By Peter Harness

            A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.

            Published in volume Singular Male Voices
              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

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