SOLO PLAYS by Daniel Bye
daniel bye is ‘one of the most astute and smartest contemporary theatremakers around’ (The Stage)
This volume collects his four solo plays for theatre: The Price of Everything, Going Viral, Instructions for Border Crossing and Imaginary Friends.
Between them these plays have been performed over three hundred times across three continents. Their commissioners and producers include HOME, ARC, Leeds Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse, Unity Theatre and many more.
The volume contains a new introduction for 2025. Each of the plays is extensively annotated with contextual material on their inception, creation and performance, along with wider meditations on the place of performance in the contemporary political world.