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Caryl Phillips

CARYL PHILLIPS  (1958 - )

 Nationality:    St. Kitts
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Literary Agent:    Judy Daish Associates Ltd  (Dramatic rights only)

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, and Dancing in the Dark.

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below is a list of Caryl Phillips's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         All Or Nothing At All         Playing Away         Rough Crossings         Shelter, The         Strange Fruit         Where there Is Darkness

All Or Nothing At All

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Playing Away

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-    1986

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Faber and Faber, London, 1987   -

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screenplay

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Rough Crossings

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As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British naval officer embark on an epic journey in search of freedom. Divided by barriers of race but united in their ambitions for equality, their convictions will change attitudes towards slavery forever.

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from novel by Simon Schama

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Headlong Theatre

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Adaptation

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Shelter, The

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remember a shelter is a temporary place of refuge in a disaster, it cannot be like home'

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Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1984   -

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Strange Fruit

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study of black family caught between two cultures

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Amber Lane Press, Ambergate, Derbyshire, 1981   -

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Where there Is Darkness

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examines the plight of a west Indian Man on the eve of his return to the Caribbean after an absence of 25 , measures the reality of his life in Britain years

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Amber Lane Press, Ambergate, Derbyshire, 1982   -

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