Staged reading of Una Marson’s At What a Price, 1932 (directed by Dermot Daly, 2022). In this scene, Ruth leaves home with Rob stopping short of declaring his love.

Recorded in 2022 at Leeds Playhouse as part of the event, Black Theatre Making and Censorship in the Archive. A collaboration between the University of Leeds, Leeds Playhouse and the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, supported by the Independent Social Research Foundation as part of the Archives of Cultural Surveillance and the Making of Black Histories Project at the University of Leeds. 

Staged reading of Una Marson’s At What a Price, 1932 (directed by Dermot Daly, 2022). In these scenes, Ruth meets Myrtle at the house that she rents in Kingston and forms a friendship; we learn of Fitzroy’s pursuit of Ruth and Myrtle’s knowledge of his personality and history; Ruth tells Myrtle that she’s leaving and we learn that Myrtle has pushed Fitzroy to propose to Ruth.