IN Manic Street Creature – the award-winning show that premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022 – Ria (Maimuna Memon) is in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A love story marred by mental health is told through a string of songs with sparse dialogue as creator, lyricist and singer Maimuna Memon charismatically plucks her shiny guitars from a stage strewn ...

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 ...

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 ...