| Title: | Playing Away | |
| Director 1: | Horace Ové | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1986 | |
| length: | 100 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Caryl Phillips, Vijay Amarnani | |
| Cinematographer: | Nicholas D. Knowland | |
| Editor: | Graham Whitlock | |
| Producer: | Vijay Amarnani | |
| Production company: | Insight | |
| Cast: | Norman Beaton, Helen Lindsay, Robert Urquhart | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 32 | |
| Synopsis: | The film is centred around a cricket match held in an idyllic Suffolk village between the local team and a visiting West Indian team from Brixton. The arrival of the players from Brixton leads to new friendships, but also unexpected hostility and a number of comical situations. The screenplay was written by Caryl Phillips, author of "Higher Ground", "Crossing the River", "The Nature of Blood" and "The Final Passage". | |
| Keyword 1: | love | |
| Keyword 2: | West Indian | |
| Keyword 3: | white | |
| Keyword 4: | racism | |
| Keyword 5: | prejudice | |
| Keyword 6: | city | |
| Keyword 7: | country | |
| Keyword 8: | sports | |
| Keyword 9: | cricket | |
| Keyword 10: | black | |
| Keyword 11: | gender | |
| Keyword 12: | masculinity | |
| Keyword 13: | mixed-race relationship | |
| Text Reference 1: | Fear of the Dark: 'Race', Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema | |
| Text Reference 2: | Black Film, British Cinema (ICA Documents 7) | |
| Text Reference 3: | Recoding Narratives of Race and Nation | |
| Text Reference 4: | Black Film in 80s Britain | |
| Text Reference 5: | Going to Meet the Man | |
| Text Reference 6: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
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