The Buddha of Suburbia review – playful spin through Hanif Kureishi’s novel

Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia bursts into life on stage – review

Emma Rice’s RSC production can’t quite get a handle on Kureishi’s big, brash 1990 debut novel about a mixed-race bisexual teenager, but it approaches the book with a colourful, playful touch

The Buddha of Suburbia review – playful spin through Hanif Kureishi’s novel

Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonEmma Rice directs an ebullient RSC version of the landmark 1990 story of sex, music, class and racismHanif Kureishi’s 1990 debut novel was so cool that its TV adaptation featured original music by David Bowie. Part coming-of-age story, part state-of-the-nation satire, it refracted 1970s Britain through the lens of a bisexual mixed-heritage teenager.It seems fitting that his journey from the “miserable undead” of …