ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the critique of multiculturalism in Caryl Phillips's screenplay Playing Away, which depicts a cricket match held between a black British team from Brixton and the well-to-do white villagers of the fictional town of Sneddington. Playing Away's mooted model of remoulded multiculturalism is one which exists in potential rather than achievement. Phillips's productive sporting tribalry anticipates a mode of affiliation where the prejudices of class and race are challenged by the surprised encounters happening here in the sports arena, endangered but not defeated by the prejudice that surrounds them. Jeffrey Richards built upon the exploitation of women and his queasy relations with his black British working-class background. Through the figure of Jeff, Ph.
