MONOLOGUES & DUOLOGUES

Great monologues and duologues for actors, in collections or from Salamander Street plays for auditions, theatre training, exams or performance.

DAN O’BRIEN

THE ANGEL IN THE TREES

and Other Monologues

Selected from over two decades of work, award-winning American playwright Dan O’Brien illuminates, in heartbreaking and unwavering fashion, the humanity of lost souls longing to be heard in this collection of monologues.

LUNG Theatre, Bristol Old Vic & Salamander Street present

UNMUTE

Unmute is an arresting and essential collection of 41 contemporary monologues written by young people, for young people. 

MARK WHEELLER

ACT NORMAL

Contemporary Monologues

A varied collection of 30 contemporary monologues from Mark Wheeller’s plays, includingToo Much Punch For JudyHard To SwallowMissing Dan NolanI Love YouMum I Promise I Won’t Die, Game Over.

COREY BOVELL

CHICKEN BURGER N CHIPS

Solo Show

A vivid picture of life on the mean streets of Lewisham.

Updated in 2023 for a performance at Brixton House Theatre.

Paperback: 9781913630669  £10.99
eBook: 9781913630652         £10.99

Paperback: 9781914228827 £10.99

Paperback: 9781913630607  £10.99
eBook: 9781913630591         £10.99

Chicken Burger n Chips

Paperback: 9781913630447  £12.99

JOANNE WATKINSON

THE ULTIMATE DRAMA POT COLLECTION

100 Monologues for Young Performers

Written by a drama teacher with over twenty years’ experience, original monologues and scenes that can be used for class work, festivals and exams. 

MARK WHEELLER

CAN’T BELIEVE I’M SAYING THIS TO MY MUM!

Contemporary Duologues

A varied collection of 30 contemporary duologues from Mark Wheeller’s plays, includingToo Much Punch For JudyHard To SwallowMissing Dan NolanI Love YouMum I Promise I Won’t Die, Game Over.

SAM SIGGS

LOVE BITES

Funny Duologues about Love
for Young Actors

From Strange Town Theatre company, all set on a Midsummer night’s eve in Edinburgh. 

ANTHONY CLARK

SHE

7 Duologues for Women

Seven short plays charting the experiences of different women from childhood to old age, these stories, each with an intriguing twist, are visceral, poignant and laced with humour.

The Ultimate Drama Pot Collection

Paperback: 9781913630645  £14.99
eBook: 9781913630638         £14.99

Mark Wheeller Contemporary Duologues

Paperback: 9781913630621 £10.99
eBook: 9781913630614        £10.99

Paperback: 9781914228391 £10.99

An illustratio of two young women sharing a soft drink.

Paperback: 9781739103057 £10.99

GEORGIE BAILEY

these words that’ll linger like ghosts till the day i drop down dead

An experimental play for two actors that explores the things we wish we’d said to those that have left. 

 

KATIE GREENALL

FATTY FAT FAT

Solo Show

A funny, frank and provocative show about living in a body the world tells you to hate.

SCOTTEE

CLASS

Solo Show

This is a play for the middle class, those who didn’t grow up in poverty, from award-winning writer. 

MATTY MAY

IF YOU LOVE ME
THIS MIGHT HURT

Solo Show

An uncensored and funny show about rage, suicide and so-called self-care.

a couple is seen in the reflection of an astronaut's helmet

Paperback: 9781914228896  £10.99

Fatty Fat Fat

Paperback: 9781913630744  £10.99

Class by Scottee

Paperback: 9781913630010  £12.99
eBook: 9781913630041  £12.99

 

Paperback: 9781914228513  £10.99

GEORGIE BAILEY

DJ BAZZER’S YEAR 6 DISCO

Solo Show

Armed only with a mighty set list, underachieving DJ Bazzer reviews the toxicity of comparing ourselves to others. 

BILLIE ESPLEN

COWBOYS AND LESBIANS

Two Hander

Charming, queer romantic comedy about British schoolfriends writing a parody American coming-of-age romance.

SEBASTIAN GARDNER

I LOST MY VIRGINITY TO CHOPIN’S NOCTURE IN B-FLAT MINOR

Two Hander

Bittersweet heartbreak comedy.

ISHBEL MCFALANE

O IS FOR HOOLET

Solo Show

Show about the Scots language to challenge and disrupt our expectations and prejudices about language.

Paperback9781914228490   £10.99


Paperback: 9781914228902   £10.99

Paperback: 9781914228162   £10.99

Paperback: 9781913630126   £12.99

SARAH SHAARAWI

SISTER RADIO

Two Hander

Sisters Fatemeh and Shirin reckon with their memories of a betrayal that changed the course of their relationship.

TIM FRASER

CANDY

Solo Show

Comedy-drama about identity, masculinity, mental health and, most importantly, love.

JAVAAD ALIPOOR

RICH KIDS

Two Hander

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran is darkly comic, urgent new play about societies are falling apart.

VARIOUS

A PLAY, A PIE and A PINT

An Anthology

 Critically acclaimed plays from Glasgow’s beloved Òran Mór.

Paperback: 9781914228834    £10.99

 

Paperback: 9781914228834    £10.99

Paperback: 9781913630515     £10.99

A Play A Pie and A Pint

Paperback: 9781913630225       £17.99

CATHERINE BISSET

PLACEHOLDER

Solo Show

Set in 1790 Saint Domingue – the daughter of an enslaved woman reflects on her life as an opera singer and the importance of resistance.

JUAN RAMIREZ, JR.

JUAN BY JUAN

Monologue Collection

14 monologues by Juan Ramirez Jr., for actors of all ages, genders and identities.

ALAN BISSETT

THE CHING ROOM

Duologue

A pitch-black two-hander set in a toilet cubicle.

VICI WREFORD-SINNOTT 

FUNNY PECULIAR and SIEGE

Monologue Collection

Powerful monologues with exciting new disabled women protagonists.

Paperback: 9781914228919    £10.99

Paperback: 9781914228971    
£10.99 / $13.35

The Ching Room & Turbo Folk

Paperback: 9781913630997
£10.99 

An actor with vibrant red hair is shown in close up. She is wearing groovy heart-shaped glasses.

Paperback: 9781914228063
£10.99 
eBook: 9781914228056
£7.99

DANTE OR DIE

SKIN HUNGER

Three Monologues

Playwrights Ann Akinjirin, Tim Crouch and Sonia Hughes address  the power of touch in this award-winning collection.

FRAN BUSHE

AD LIBIDO

Monologue

Fran Bushe’s hilarious’ quest (with songs) for a satisfying sex life. 

SADIE CLARK

ALGORITHMS

Solo Show

A bisexual Bridget Jones for the online generation, Algorithms is a tragicomic solo show, with a lovably hapless heroine.

GABRIEL FOGARTY-GRAVESON
& FELIX GRAINGER

SNIFF

Duologue

A dark, funny ode to the forgotten. Two strangers meet in a pub toilet that no one cares about.

Paperback 9781914228292  £10.99
eBook 9781914228285          £7.99

Paperback  9781914228476 £10.99
eBook        9781914228476 £10.99.

Paperback  9781738429394   £10.99

Sniff by Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson and Felix Grainger

Paperback  9781738429356   £10.99

EMILY JUPP

WORMHOLES

Monologue

A darkly compelling solo play about coercive control, domestic abuse and how the mind finds a way to escape.

JORDAN TWEDDLE

PILLOCK

Monologue

A queer neurodiverse dark comedy by Jordan Tweddle.

KHALID ABDALLA

NOWHERE

Monologue

A surprising solo show about personal history and the Egyptian revolution of 2011. 

JOANNE WATKINSON

SCENES FOR SCREEN

Self-Tape Practice Book

Prepare for the spotlight with Joanne Watkinson’s expertly crafted scenes designed specifically for young actors.

Paperback 9781068696206  £10.99

Pillock by Jordan Tweddle

Paperback 9781068696213  £10.99

Khalid Abdalla holds a pane of glass and watches a candle's flame through it. Nowhere

Paperback 9781068696251      £10.99

Paperback 9781068696299      £10.99

MARK HANNAH

ATHENS OF THE NORTH

Three Monologues

Told across three monologues, the lives of Edinburgh residents and visitors interweave across a single day in Scotland’s capital.

JADE FRANKS

EAT THE RICH
(but maybe not me mates x)

Monologue

A sharp, funny look at class, identity and friendship. Jade Franks’s solo show asks “What happens when a Liverpool girl crashes the Cambridge bubble?”

Mark Hannah appears with the words Athens of the North

Paperback 9781068233425    £10.99

Paperback 9781068233449      £10.99