Caryl Phillips

Three plays by playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips, written in the 1980s and collected here for the first time.Strange Fruitis a powerful study of a black family caught between two cultures;Where There is Darknessexamines 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 Shelteralternates between the late eighteenth-century and 1950s London, exploring the relationship between a black man and a white woman.