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Scripts for One Person Plays – Solo Performance

Find drama solo performance scripts and ideas in our 1-person plays for solo performance; acting scripts for one person monologues, for student actor,  professional actor or amateur actor. Discover acting scripts for one person plays, for One Man ShowsOne Woman Shows, monologues, perfect for online virtual performances, minimal sets and staging.

Find solo drama performance ideas among these single actor play scripts. There are:

  • Solo  acting script drama collections of monologues from within famous marriages
    • Queen Elizabeth I,
    • Will Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway
    • Kate Hogarth Dickens
    • Harriet Tubman
    • Tsali, a Cherokee warrior
  • Short shorts for seniors
  • Short acting scripts for one person
  • Monologues from women in the Bible
  • Screwtape Letters inspired one person play
  • A man whose wife is in a permanent coma
  • Nat Turner reflects on his past
  • An adaptation of a Chrismas Carol for a single actor

Browse these acting scripts for one actor to get ideas for solo drama performances, one actor performances and solo shows. 

  • ABC’s of Memory

    $14.70$75.00
    Lianne's ABCs of Memory touch on cultural milestones such as Elvis, Nancy Drew, Wonder Bread, 9-11, and Ty Cobb, as well as personal memories of family life. These poems both celebrate and mourn America's past and present. These are dramatic poems. Life happens. Events occur. Here is an elegy for our American Dream. As such. these poems are naturals for forensics, scene study, and spoken word events.
  • In And Sarah Laughed: A Musical Comedy in One Act for A Solo Female Performance, a single actress emceeing a wedding reception delivers a comic glimpse into the world of women as they navigate to find their own place in a man’s world.
  • Dreams of Glass

    $12.95$29.95
    A one-woman short play with comedic and dramatic elements. Daisi Dickie, a young woman with dreams of becoming a clairvoyant and a changer of lives discovers her power to influence her own life.
  • These voices from the Old Testament are perfect for Christian solo drama performances. Also with voices of contemporary men of faith, struggling or affirming their beliefs bring modern issues to life. Perfect for inclusion in virtual church services and programs, and also as audition pieces. For performance rights for individual monologues, please contact us.
  • Monsters

    $11.97$90.00
    Seven contemporary monologues that take the audience into a roller coaster ride of the psyche from predators to bizarre takes on the afterlife. Featuring an electric chair experiment, missing body parts and a weird scientific experiment to name a few. Great solo performance ideas.
  • Short Plays for Long Lives

    $16.97$110.00
    A collection of six 10-minute plays for seniors and senior theater groups. With mostly senior cast members, these short comedies plays about old people play well for senior groups and senior actors.  They may be produced as Readers Theater, or on stage individually or as a group.  These are good plays for amdram groups and community theater.
  • The Hidden Stream

    $13.70$16.97
    A Poetry Collection For Spoken Word Theater. A moving, insightful autobiography combining poetry and reflection reveals the emerging life and art of a poet. Can be used selectively to construct short one-act plays. The poems are superb for spoken word theater, solo acting scripts, one-person shows, monologue plays scripts. See the script extract.
  • As Miranda prepares to go to sleep, she recounts the events of her day—and her life—through a series of imagined and surreal interactions with her parents and psychiatrist.
  • These 16 fictional monologues by Gillette Elvgren are based on women in the Bible. They range from the profound and moving to the comic and even sassy. Find the biblical characters you would expect: Mary, Mother of Jesus; Mary Magdalene; and Martha. Add to that the Witch of Endor and Claudia, the wife of Pilate and you have a vibrant mix of voices, both serious and comic. This collection of monologues can be performed as an evening or individually as a portion of a church or school event.

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