Playing Away
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Playing Away is a 1986 TV comedy film directed by Horace Ové, from a screenplay by Caryl Phillips.[1]
Premise
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)."[2]
Reception
New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby called it "witty and wise without being seriously disturbing for a minute".[3]
Production
The cricket match scenes were filmed at Botany Bay Cricket Club in Enfield, London.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The film cost £924,000.[4]
Cast
- Norman Beaton
- Nicholas Farrell
- Brian Bovell
- Ross Kemp
- Gary Beadle
- Trevor Thomas
- Ram John Holder
- Bruce Purchase
- Joseph Marcell
- Patrick Holt
- Neil Morrissey
References
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Onyekachi Wambu, "Playing Away (1986)", Screenonline, BFI.
- ↑ Vincent Canby, "Playing Away (1986)", The New York Times, 13 March 1987.
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External links
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- New York Times Film Review
- Time Out Film Guide.