Caryl Phillips

Three plays by Caryl Phillips exploring Black British experience — Strange Fruit (a family's conflict over racial identity), Where There is Darkness, and The Shelter.

An African father who sold his children into slavery 250 years ago watches their descendants scatter across the Black Atlantic — a missionary in Africa, a slave in America, a GI's wartime companion in England.

Emily, an English woman visiting her father's Caribbean plantation in the early 19th century, and Cambridge, an enslaved African man who converted to Christianity, each narrate their experience of the same place.