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Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit

Phillips, Caryl
Stevens, Jenny
Okagbue, Osita

Paperback

Series: Student Editions

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PREORDER - Expected ship date August 5, 2027

ISBN10: 1350515205
ISBN13: 9781350515208
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: Aug 5 2027
Pages: 144
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.79
Language: English

Strange Fruit is the story of a family caught between two cultures, and the uncrossable no-man's-land that can come between parents and their children.

It offers a portrait of growing up Black in 1980s Britain when the entire political, social and cultural system seemed rigged against the Black community.

The play was first performed at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield, in 1980, and is published here as a Student Edition alongside commentary and notes by Osita Okagbue.

These look at the play's context - specifically, generational tensions between the Windrush migrants and their children, and the racism, protest and riots of the 1970s - as well as the play's themes, including identity, homelessness and interracial relationships.

The edition includes an original interview with Caryl Phillips and offers a much-needed contemporary perspective on this play, which is now over 40 years old and in the light of the recent Windrush Scandal and its ongoing ramifications.

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