Caryl Phillips: Plays One - (Oberon Modern Playwrights) (Paperback)

About the Book

Three plays by playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips, written in the 1980s and collected here for the first time: Strange Fruit, Where There is Darkness, and The Shelter.

Book Synopsis

Three plays by playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips, written in the 1980s and collected here for the first time.

Strange Fruit is a powerful study of a black family caught between two cultures; Where There is Darkness examines the plight of a West Indian man, Albert Williams, on the eve of his return to the Caribbean after an absence of twenty-five years; The Shelter alternates between the late eighteenth-century and 1950s London, exploring the relationship between a black man and a white woman.

About the Author

Caryl Phillips' novels include The Final Passage, The Atlantic Sound, A State of Independence, Higher Ground, Cambridge, Crossing the River, The Nature of Blood, A Distant Shore, Dancing in the Dark, The Lost Child, and A View of the Empire At Sunset.