Solo performance in her solo piece titled "We Keep Our Victims Ready". Sometimes, solo shows are simply traditional plays written by playwrights for a cast of one. Examples: "Shirley Valentine" by Willy Russell, "I Am My Own Wife" by Doug Wright, "The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead" by Robert Hewett and "Topless" by Miles Tredinnick. A performer of shows of this type is Chris Harris, whose performances in the genre include "Kemp's Jig", "That's The Way To Do It!", "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday", "Beemaster", "'Arris Music 'All" and "A Night at the Pantomime". There have also been many British comedians
James Shirley Shirley went to Ireland, under the patronage apparently of the Earl of Kildare. Three or four of his plays were produced by his friend John Ogilby in Dublin in the Werburgh Street Theatre, the first ever built in Ireland and at the time of Shirley's visit only one year old. During his Dublin stay, Shirley wrote "The Doubtful Heir", "The Royal Master", "The Constant Maid", and "St. Patrick for Ireland". In his absence from London, Queen Henrietta's Men sold off a dozen of his plays to the stationers, who published them in the late 1630s. Shirley, when he returned to