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HANIF KUREISHI (1954 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd |
Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King's College, London. He is the author of numerous novels, short story collections, screenplays and plays. In 1984 he wrote My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. His second film, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, was followed by London Kills Me, which he also directed. The Buddha of Suburbia won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel in 1990 and was made into a four-part drama series by the BBC. His second novel, The Black Album, was published in 1995 and his first collection of short stories, Love in a Blue Time, was published in 1997. My Son the Fanatic, a story from that collection, was adapted for film and released in 1998. Intimacy, his third novel, was published in 1998, and was adapted for film in 2001. A second collection of short stories, Midnight All Day, was published in 2000, followed in 2001 by his fourth novel Gabriel's Gift.
Plays by Hanif Kureishi
Artists And Admirers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19818 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Alexander Ostrovsky; Written in collaboration with David Leveaux | |||||
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Birds Of Passage | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19819 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Black Album, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 Jul 2009 | |||||
Company: | National Theatre and Tara Arts | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571251322 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97971 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Hanif Kureishi's stage adaptation of his novel humorously considers how the events of 1989 have shaped today's world, where fundamentalism battles liberalism | |||||
Synopsis: | An Asian kid from Kent goes to college in London and teams up with a sympathetic group of anti-racists. But it's 1989, the year of the fatwa, and as Shahid begins a hedonistic affair with his lecturer, his radical Muslim friends want to steer him away from the decadence of the West. | |||||
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Borderline | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||||
Company: | Joint Stock | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19820 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
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Cinders | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1981 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19821 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Janusz Glowacki | |||||
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Intimacy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bull Theatre, Barnet | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Guy Masterton, TTI and Wisepart Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19822 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | First seen at the Bull Theatre, Barnet, 24 Jul 2002 | |||||
Synopsis: | It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.'Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection of their time together he analyses the agonies and the joys of trying to make a life with another person. | |||||
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King And Me, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1980 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19823 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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London Kills Me | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19824 | |||
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Genre: | Film Script | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Mother Country, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19825 | |||
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Mother Courage And Her Children | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19826 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 19 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht | |||||
Synopsis: | Period 1630's, Mother Courage follows the Swedish armies through the terrible Thirty Years War with her mobile canteen and three children, each by a different man | |||||
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My Beautiful Laundrette | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19827 | |||
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Genre: | Film Script. - - Gay/Lesbian, film/TV scripts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 | ||
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Outskirts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse, Covent Garden, London | 28 Apr 1981 | ||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19828 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Further Reference: | RSC ref OUT198104 | |||||
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Sleep With Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19829 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | Set over the course of a summer weekend in the country, Sleep With Me is a fast-moving, tragi-comic satire, exposing the emotionally and sexually chaotic lives of a group of friends. 'They're all coming apart . . . attacking one another . . . Affairs and heartbreak - most of the people I know. No one knows how to make themselves or anyone else happy. Marriage hardly seems worth the trouble.' | |||||
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Soaking The Heat | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sunday Night, Royal Court, London | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19830 | |||
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Tomorrow - Today! | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1981 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #19831 | |||
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When The Night Begins | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43836 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jane, recently widowed, wealthy, and determined to avenge her brutal upbringing, returns to confront her abusive step-father. Isolated in a room above the city, their disturbing, sexually charged encounter heads inexorably towards violence as they struggle to come to terms with their different versions of the past in this harrowing thriller. | |||||
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