Manic Street Creature

<p><b>Finalist for Best Performance Piece at the Offies Awards 2024</b><br><br><i>There''s this unspoken thing right? I guess this resistance to admitting that someone else''s trauma can be traumatising.</i><br><br>Ria is working with her band to complete a new album – songs charting the rise and fall of a recent relationship. But the more Ria progresses, the more she’s drawn back to the darkness of her troubled past, until we’re not sure where memory ends and reality begins.<br><br><i>Manic Street Creature </i>is a fresh and thrilling take on a modern love story from Olivier nominee Maimuna Memon (<i>Standing at the Sky’s Edge</i>). Love, lust, and late nights collide in a musical rollercoaster, taking the audience through the euphoria and distress of two people dealing with their own and each other’s mental health.<br><br>From its multi-award winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022, including <i>The Scotsman</i> Fringe First, the Mental Health Fringe Award and <i>The Stage</i> Edinburgh Award, this edition of <i>Manic Street Creature</i> is published to coincide with its Southwark Playhouse Borough run in October 2023.</p>