Playing Away

Playing Away is a 1987 TV comedy film directed by Horace Ové, from a screenplay by Caryl Phillips. In the story, an English cricket team, fictitiously named "Sneddington" (based in Lavenham, Suffolk), invites a team of West Indian heritage based in Brixton (South London) to play a charity game in support of their "Third World Week." According to Screenonline, "The gentle comedy of manners and unexpected reversal of white and black stereotypes in Playing Away contrasts sharply with the stylistic experimentation and the militant denunciations of racial prejudice in director Horace Ové's earlier feature, Pressure (1975)."[1] New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby called it "witty and wise without being seriously disturbing for a minute".[2]

The cricket match scenes were filmed at Botany Bay Cricket Club in Enfield, London. Among those starring in Playing Away were:

References

  1. ↑ Onyekachi Wambu, "Playing Away (1986)", Screenonline, BFI.
  2. ↑ Vincent Canby, "Playing Away (1986)", The New York Times, 13 March 1987.


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