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Manic Street Creature

Maimuna Memon
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781350641891
  • Weight: 100g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Mar 2026
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

There’s this unspoken thing right? I dunno . . . I guess, this resistance to admitting that someone else’s trauma can be traumatising . . .

Ria is a singer-songwriter. She’s talented. She’s ambitious. And she’s driven- quite literally- all the way from Lancashire to London, to start afresh in Camden Town.

Charting the rise and fall of a rollercoaster relationship, Ria is recording her debut album with her band. But the more the tracks progress, the more music and memory collide…

This soaring piece of gig theatre from Olivier Award winner Maimuna Memon brings a raw and powerful insight into first love, co-dependence and mental health care – but most of all, how music has the
power to help us start again.

This revised and updated edition was published to coincide with the critically acclaimed, multi award-winning return of Manic Street Creature at Kiln Theatre in March 2026.
About Maimuna Memon
Maimuna Memon is a Lancashire born writer, composer, musician and actor. She is Co-Founder and Resident Composer of Wildcard Theatre Company. Maimuna’s one woman concept album musical Manic Street Creature was a smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning the 2022 Mental Health Fringe Award. Maimuna has written music and lyrics for Electrolyte (a gig theatre piece which had a sell out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018/19 and won the Scotsman Mental Health Award), Nine Lessons and Carols at the Almeida Theatre and Welcome To Iran for the National Theatre and Stratford East (cancelled due to the pandemic but then adapted for BBC Radio 3). Maimuna is commissioned by The Bush and Bolton Octagon Theatre for her new musical Sparrow Girl, an autobiographical four woman show about choice and heritage. She was nominated for a 2023 Olivier Award as Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in the National Theatre's Standing at the Sky's Edge.

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