Outskirts and Other Plays: The King and Me/Outskirts/Borderline/Birds of Passage

In 1981 Hanif Kureishi was voted the Most Promising Playwright of the Year by the London Theatre Critics for his plays "Borderline" and "Outskirts". This selection of original works shows his development as a writer finding his own subject matter and establishing his characteristically powerful style, before moving into films with "My Beautiful Laundrette". This examination of Kureishi's work looks at it from the author's own experience and from the perspective of the radical British theatre of the 1970s.