‘The Buddha of Suburbia’: Emma Rice on Working With Hanif Kureishi to Make His Iconic 1970s-Set Novel Relevant to Modern Theater Audiences

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s theater adaptation of “The Buddha of Suburbia” had hard acts to follow, coming after an acclaimed novel and TV series. Hanif Kureishi’s Whitbread Award-winning 1990 novel is one of the seminal works of British literature. The London-set story revolves around 17-year-old Karim — whose father is Indian and mother is English […]
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