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.
Woman Caught Unaware
A searing examination of the culture of body-shaming, exploring how images of women are represented in art and social media.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
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.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99My Name is Rachel Corrie (2017 edition)
The moving account of the life and early death of a young female activist, adapted from her own writings.
- Ebook
£10.99£8.79
Sugar Baby
By Alan HarrisA one-man comedy-drama about a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff, from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Queers: Eight Monologues
By various Created by Mark GatissQueers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight individuals.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Angel
By Henry NaylorInspired by the extraordinary true story of the Angel of Kobane, Angel is part of Henry Naylor's Arabian Nightmares trilogy.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
small hours
A collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell, dissecting the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.
- Ebook
£2.99£2.39
Out of Your Knowledge
By Steve WatersA short play that explores our changing attitudes towards the landscape.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
Death of a Cyclist
By Steve WatersA poignant, bleakly comic short monologue told by a woman killed in a cycling accident.
- Ebook
£2.99£2.39
In a Vulnerable Place
By Steve WatersA monologue documenting Steve Waters' own journey from the Norfolk Broads to the steppes of Mongolia to explore, first hand, what is happening to the natural world and the human heart.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
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.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Maisie Says She Loves Me
A one-man play about love, inheritance and not letting your feelings show.
- Ebook
£3.99£3.19
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