The Royal Shakespeare Company's theater ... "The Buddha of Suburbia" stage adaptation has a contemporaneous feel to it. Rice said that her initial idea was to begin the play when Karim is in ...

Comic drama based on the novel by Hanif Kureishi following the life of 17-year-old Karim as he looks for trouble, action and sex in the south London suburbs of the 1970s.

For a relatively short novel, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia is a big and ... The arc that suffers most for this is Karim’s relationship with Charlie, a teenage peer who topples ...