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MANIC STREET CREATURE

5 – 28 Mar 2026

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Kiln Theatre and Gary Beestone Associates presents

Manic Street Creature

Music, Book & Lyrics by Maimuna Memon

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When you’re the one keeping everything together, how do you stop yourself from falling apart?

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 can help us start again.

The critically acclaimed, multi award-winning Manic Street Creature returns to the stage in a new production for a limited run at Kiln Theatre.

 

This production is generously supported by Adam Kenwright.

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Special Performances

Post show Q&A: Mon 16 Mar, 7.30pm
Alcohol Free Performance: Tue 24 Mar, 7.30pm

Access Performances

Captioned Performances: Thu 19 Mar, 7.30pm
Relaxed Performance: Wed 25 Mar, 2.30pm
Touch Tour: Thu 26 Mar, 6pm
Audio Described Performance: Thu 26 Mar, 7.30pm

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Dates

5 – 28 Mar 2026

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‘Impassioned and heartfelt’

- Guardian

‘Memon is now proving her undeniable star power’

- Independent

‘Maimuna Memon is going to be massive’

- The Stage

‘What really stands out is Memon’s brilliant, evocative score’

- WhatsOnStage

‘Tender and transfixing’

- Scotsman

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Creative Team

Maimuna Memon

Music, book & lyrics
Maimuna Memon

Music, book & lyrics

Maimuna Enya Memon is a Lancashire born musician, composer, writer and actor.

In 2025, Maimuna won an Olivier Award for her role as Sonya in Natasha Pierre And The Great Comet Of 1812 at The Donmar Warehouse. She was nominated for the same award in 2023 for her role as Nikki in Standing At The Sky’s Edge at The National Theatre. She was the recipient of The Fringe First Award, Stage Award For Acting and The Mental Health Award for her self-penned show Manic Street Creature which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022.

Maimuna co-founded Wildcard Theatre Company, which ran from 2015-2023. Throughout Wildcard’s eight years, they produced eight shows which toured nationwide, including the multi award winning Electrolyte, for which Maimuna was composer and lyricist.

Maimuna has just completed a writing placement with The National Theatre. Her most recent writing and composition work for theatre includes, Grapes of Wrath (National Theatre); Portia Coughlan (Almeida Theatre); Manic Street Creature (Edinburgh Fringe and Southwark Playhouse); Nine Lessons and Carols (Almeida Theatre); Henry VIII (Globe Theatre); Electrolyte (Edinburgh 2018/19 and National Tour); Welcome to Iran (Stratford East, BBC Radio 3).

Her debut EP, ‘More Than I Bargained For’ was released in 2023, with her second EP to be released this year.

Maimuna’s acting work includes, Natasha Pierre And The Great Comet of 1812 (Donmar Warehouse); Grapes of Wrath (National Theatre); Manic Street Creature (Southwark Playhouse/ Paines Plough Roundabout); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (National Theatre/Sheffield Theatres); Living Newspaper Edition 6 (Royal Court); Nine Lessons and Carols (Almeida Theatre); The Band Plays On (Sheffield Theatres); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard Theatre); Hobson’s Choice; Into the Woods (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Electrolyte (Wildcard/Pleasance Dome); Lazarus (Kings Cross Theatre).

Her television credits include: Patience; Domino Day; Time; Sherwood and Unforgotten. 

Kirsty Patrick Ward

Director
Kirsty Patrick Ward

Director

Kirsty is a Director and Dramaturg for stage and screen. She has been shortlisted for the JP Morgan Emerging Directors award and was a finalist for the JMK award.

Kirsty’s production of Manic Street Creature won a Fringe First, Stage Edinburgh award and The Mental Health Fringe award in 2022 before transferring to the Southwark Playhouse in 2023. Other directing credits include: The Gang of Three (King’s Head Theatre); The Children and Moonlight & Magnolias (Nottingham Playhouse); Strike! (Southwark Playhouse); The world premiere production of Mischief Theatre’s Groan Ups (Vaudeville Theatre West End & International); Spiderfly (Theatre 503); The Sweet Science of Bruising (Wilton’s Music Hall and Southwark Playhouse); Exactly Like You (Underbelly Edinburgh Fringe) and Chef (Soho Theatre & Edinburgh Fringe – winner of a Fringe First and Stage Edinburgh award).