Hanif Kureishi, left tetraplegic and in need of constant care after a terrible fall in Rome in 2022, has spoken movingly about being sustained by the prospect of this major stage adaptation of his award-winning,

For a relatively short novel, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia is a big and unwieldy thing. The incendiary 1990 book teems with incident and ideas – an irreverent, orgiastic odyssey following Karim,

This glorious adaptation of Hanif Kureishi’s novel at the RSC Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon, has wit, great tunes and an astonishingly assured central performance

View image in fullscreen Natasha Jayetileke (Jamila), centre, in The Buddha of Suburbia at the Swan theatre. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian The story’s sophisticated intersections of sex, class and race are all intact though, along with a ...

Peter Ormerod reviews The Buddha of Suburbia, presented by the RSC and Wise Children at the Swan Theatre, Stratford

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