Manic Street Creature is a tooth-achingly earnest song-cycle about the effects of poor mental health on the support system. Ria (Maimuna Memon, also book writer and composer) has just moved to London ...

Maimuna Memon’s Manic Street Creature did the rounds at the Edinburgh Fringe a few years back, where – I’m ashamed to say – I studiously avoided it because I thought it had a silly name. And now Manic ...

Actor, composer, lyricist, writer, musician – Maimuna Memon has tackled many aspects of the creative carousel over the last 18 months, and each of them in a markedly distinct way. From picking up an ...

A love story marred by mental health is told through a string of songs with sparse dialogue as creator, lyricist and singer ...

Maimuna Memon’s song cycle is a deeply personal story of finding one’s feet while slipping into an abyss before settling on a ledge, looking up and down. She gives voice to Ria as the singer and ...

Manic Street Creature review: A powerful lead performance but piles on the clichés - 3/5 This showcase for Maimuna Memon at the Kiln Theatre is a personal tale undermined by the writing ...