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", invites a team of West Indian heritage based in Brixton 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." New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby called it "witty and wise without being seriously disturbing for a minute".
The cricket match scenes were filmed at Botany Bay Cricket Club in Enfield, London.
Among those starring in Playing Away were:
- Norman Beaton
- Nicholas Farrell
- Brian Bovell
- Ross Kemp
- Gary Beadle
- Trevor Thomas
- Ram John Holder
- Bruce Purchase
- Joseph Marcell
- Director: Horace Ové
- Producer: Vijay Amarnani
- Music by: Simon Webb
