[4] Marson is also the first Black female playwright to have had her work performed in the West End, which contemporary British Theatre credits to Natasha Gordon for her 2018 play Nine Night.
[1] In its depiction of the exploitation of a naive young Black woman from the Jamaican countryside,[3][1] the four act play explores themes of women's desire, interracial relations and sexual harassment in the workplace.
[3] Ruth Maitland is a young black woman from the countryside who travels to the Jamaican capital Kingston to find work.
[1][3] She finds a job as a stenographer and is seduced by her employer, a white British man named Gerald Fitzroy by whom she falls pregnant.
[1][3] At the end of the play Ruth is back in rural Jamaica where she is proposed to by a long term admirer called Rob.