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Post by wiggymess on Aug 2, 2017 10:44:42 GMT
Hi, Bit of a random one. Could people please recommend one-person plays? (To read, rather than current productions) I'm thinking in the same vein as Fleabag, Grounded etc. Much appreciated  x |
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Post by harlow on Aug 2, 2017 11:23:10 GMT
My favourite one person play is Misterman by Enda Walsh. It's also one of the best plays overall that I've ever seen; dark, human, revelatory. Very funny and utterly heartbreaking .
I also absolutely adore Sea Wall by Simon Stephens. I think you can still find the short film with Andrew Scott if you'd also like to see it as well as read.
Neither is in the same vein as Fleabag though (stylistically or thematically).
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Post by wiggymess on Aug 2, 2017 11:32:35 GMT
My favourite one person play is Misterman by Enda Walsh. It's also one of the best plays overall that I've ever seen; dark, human, revelatory. Very funny and utterly heartbreaking . I also absolutely adore Sea Wall by Simon Stephens. I think you can still find the short film with Andrew Scott if you'd also like to see it as well as read. Neither is in the same vein as Fleabag though (stylistically or thematically). Thank you. Yes, I bought the short film of Seawall so have that on my computer. I'll check out Misterman, thank you! Not only interested in styles/themes of Fleabag, just mean a modern one-person play. Ta |
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Post by Jan on Aug 2, 2017 11:46:10 GMT
Last one I saw was "Title and Deed" by Will Eno at the Print Room. Not sure how it will read but in performance it was really quite good.
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Post by rumbledoll on Aug 2, 2017 11:59:57 GMT
Exactly what harlow said - Misterman and Sea Wall. Both devastating, brilliantly written and funny.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 12:03:55 GMT
Josephine And I by Cush Jumbo, Spine by Clara Brennan, Dark Vanilla Jungle and Tonight With Donny Stixx by Philip Ridley.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 12:11:59 GMT
I'm blanking myself right now but the National Theatre bookshop regularly run a twitter Q&A where you can ask them for recommendations, but also might be worth a scroll through their feed for inspiration as well!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 12:14:26 GMT
'Buyer and Cellar' of course.
Papa can you hear me . . . ?
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Post by foxa on Aug 2, 2017 12:17:35 GMT
I'm not a fan of one person shows generally, but I liked 'Random' by debbie tucker green - one person inhabiting many characters, themes: knife crime; death in the family.
'It's Always Right Now Until It's Later' by Daniel Kitson is absolutely wonderful - but I have a feeling it hasn't been published. There may be some bits about it or of it on youtube.
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Post by Marwood on Aug 2, 2017 12:44:44 GMT
Agree about Misterman, also would like to mention Song From Far Away
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 2, 2017 13:06:23 GMT
I second the above-mentioned Donny Stixx and Buyer & Cellar.
My Name Is Rachel Corrie
3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae
Mouse: The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought
Primo Time
...though I'm not sure how many of these are available as texts.
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 2, 2017 13:59:10 GMT
Dah! Forgot that one, great show. There are probably loads of others I'm not remembering yet. |
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Post by wiggymess on Aug 2, 2017 14:19:08 GMT
Thanks so much all - impressive knowledge as expected!
Lots to get stuck into.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 15:03:57 GMT
Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley - Chris Goode
Confirmation - Chris Thorpe
Brand New Ancients - Kate Tempest
Far Side of the Moon - Robert Lepage
Every Brilliant Thing - Duncan McMillan / Jonny Donahoe
iphigenia in Splott - Gary Owen
None of Daniel Kitson's work has been published, sadly.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 2, 2017 15:44:27 GMT
Brief Lives can be a great experience - with the right actor at the helm
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Post by herculesmulligan on Aug 2, 2017 16:36:25 GMT
Stefan Golaszewski wrote and performed two excellent one man plays, 'Talks About A Girl He Once Loved' and 'Is A Widower.'
He did them in Edinburgh, then again at the Bush in London. I remember some playtexts were published.
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Post by paplazaroo on Aug 2, 2017 16:59:44 GMT
Bottleneck by Luke Barnes, Silk Road by Alex Oates (not published but I got a copy by tweeting the writer), blush by Charlotte Josephine is a duologue about revenge porn and a bit like fleabag
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 18:17:57 GMT
Not i by Samuel Beckett
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Post by foxa on Aug 2, 2017 19:01:09 GMT
Ah, this is a quirky one:
'Gardening for the unfulfilled and alienated' by Brad Birch (winner of the recent Harold Pinter playwriting bursary.) It was performed in a garden shed in Edinburgh. Entertaining.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 0:17:43 GMT
Iphigena in Splott with Sophie Melville was very touching and superbly acted.
Tom Conti was hilarious in One Helluva Life about John Barrymore when I saw that many years ago. The drunk Richard III falling off the throne got one of the biggest laughs I've ever heard in a theatre.
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Post by barelyathletic on Aug 3, 2017 11:05:10 GMT
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Post by wiggymess on Aug 3, 2017 11:58:47 GMT
Funnily enough I was reading up about this today after looking at the new season at the Arcola. |
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Post by lynette on Aug 3, 2017 13:17:42 GMT
And the other Beckett with the woman buried - name please? You can do it without the appearance of the husband I think. |
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Post by foxa on Aug 3, 2017 13:31:51 GMT
Happy Days ;-)
Also Bunny by Jack Thorne
And Faith Healer consists of extended monologues by three actors.
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