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At What A Price

By Una Marson , Horace D. Vaz

Year staged: 1933

Opening night: 23/12/1933

Theatre Company: League of Coloured Peoples

Staged in: YWCA, London

Cast Size: 18

Synopsis

The play, a comedy, concerns the fate of a young Jamaican woman who moves from the countryside into the city of Kingston to work as a stenographer and falls in love with her white male boss who is something of a rogue where women are concerned.

Original Cast

Una Marson

Ruth Maitland

Viola Thompson

Mary Maitland

Mabel Bates

Clementina

Stella Thomas

Myrtle Dale

Sylvia Lowe

Josephine (an office woman)

Arthur Lewis

Robert Irving (English Business man)

Eric Campbell

Septi Boils (street pedlar)

Keith Gordon

Marti Boils (street pedlar)

Dennis Degazon

Guy Forrester

Dorothy Clarke

Sybil Earle

Joan Moody

Ada Halliday

Christine Moody

Gloria Watson

Amy Barbour James

Maria Baker (landlady)

Madge Franckeiss

Gertie Davis

Desmond Buckle

Ted Watson

Stephen Thomas

Jack Burke

Harold Moody

James Maitland (a Country Storekeeper) / Raye Davis

Fred Degazon

Gerald Fitzroy

Production Team

Clifford Norman

Director

Additional Materials

Link to Playscript

Playscript

Ref: Add MS 66878 D

British Library

Link to Correspondence File

Correspondence File

Ref: LCP CORR 1933/12620

British Library

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