This chapter places Sistren’s plays Nana Yah (1980) and QPH (1981) in dialogue with the successes and failures of Manley’s reforms and the political climate of the late 1970s. Sistren spent the lead-up to and the aftermath of the 1980 election - which saw the Michael Manley-led PNP defeated at the polls - reflecting on the severe social and economic problems that had developed during the 1970s. Based on real-life experiences, the plays reflect on the gains and losses of the 1970s from the perspective of working-class women in whose name the Manley government enacted its reforms. Sistren members themselves were trying to make sense of the failures of a system that promised a “Third Path between capitalism and communism” (Carr 232) but ultimately did not deliver it. Through the plays Nana Yah and QPH., Sistren questioned what had become a “naturalised” masculinist space in Kingston just as they had questioned the “naturalised” gender hierarchy in Jamaican society in its play Bellywoman Bangarang. Both Nana Yah and QPH. depict women intervening in dangerous situations, exposing the precariousness of their lived environment, both on and off the stage. This chapter will read these plays through the lens of what Black literary geographer Katherine McKittrick calls “a Black sense of place” (“On Plantations” 948).