Yorkshire Post, October 23, 2009
...AT its heart, Hanif Kureishi's combustible story focuses on a British-born Pakistani student torn between Western liberalism and Muslim fundamentalism. Set in London in 1989 amid the furore surrounding the publication of Salman ...
Yorkshire Post, October 23, 2009
...this article in full you must be registered with the site. « Previous Next » AT its heart, Hanif Kureishi's combustible story focuses on a British-born Pakistani student torn between Western liberalism and Muslim fundamentalism. Set in ...
Yorkshire Post, October 16, 2009
...Hanif Kureishi's novel The Black Album has been adapted for the stage. Nick Ahad spoke to him ahead of its opening next week.GIVEN that his good friend Salman Rushdie ...
Tottenham, Wood Green & Edmonton Journal, September 2, 2009
... National Theatre, Cottesloe, SE1 RADICAL Islam, fatawa, shiny happy people and lace leggings, vie for attention in Hanif Kureishi's stage adaptation of his panoramic second novel, The Black Album. It is the late 1980s as our hero, Shahid ...
Irish World News, August 11, 2009
... The Black Album @ National Theatre, London The Black Album was a wonderful, incendiary book, but it's flat as a Dutch bike ride on the stage of the National. Hanif Kureishi ...
The Independent, July 20, 2009
...Rehearsal Room 2, in the maze that is the working space beneath the National Theatre, watching rehearsals of Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album. The director, Jatinder Verma, is fine-tuning the performances. Kureishi himself is sitting ...
Thelondonpaper, July 13, 2009
...Hanif Kureishi has adapted his 1995 novel 'The Black Album' for the NT The Times A NEW play about the rise of radical Islam will get its premiere at the National ...
BBC, July 10, 2009
...play about the rise of radical Islam is about to open at the National Theatre in London. Author Hanif Kureishi has based it on his critically-acclaimed second novel, The Black Album. The book follows the journey of a young, British-born ...
Guardian Unlimited, June 30, 2009
...'I was anxious that in the present mood it might seem frivolous' ... Hanif Kureishi. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe Last summer I suggested to Jatinder Verma that we attempt a dramatisation of my second novel, The Black Album. This was a novel I ...
Guardian Unlimited, June 29, 2009
...Last summer I suggested to Jatinder Verma that we attempt a dramatisation of my second novel, The Black Album. This was a novel I had begun to think about in 1991, not long after the publication of The Buddha of Suburbia. Unlike that story, ...
Playbill, January 14, 2009
...in May with a cast that includes Anna Chancellor, James Fleet and Chuk Iwuji; Jatinder Verma will direct Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album, adapted from his own novel, to open in July. Katie Mitchell will also direct Ferdinand Bruckner's The ...