HANIF KUREISHI (1954 - )
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Hanif Kureishi
Artists And Admirers |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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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 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Borderline |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
| Company: | Joint Stock | |||
| 1st Published: | 1981 | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
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Cinders |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1981 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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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 & Faber, London | 1999 | ||
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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. | ||||
King And Me, The |
| 1st Produced: | Soho Poly, London | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London | 1983 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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London Kills Me |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1991 | ||
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| Genre: | Film Script | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Mother Country, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1980 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Mother Courage And Her Children |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | - | ||
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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 | ||||
My Beautiful Laundrette |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | Film Script | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 |
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Outskirts |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London | 1983 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Sleep With Me |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 1999 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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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.' | ||||
Soaking The Heat |
| 1st Produced: | Sunday Night, Royal Court, London | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Tomorrow - Today! |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1981 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Calder & Boyers, London | 1983 | ||
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When The Night Begins |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2004 | ||
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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. | ||||