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Kate Hunter, Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University

Break of Day’s tribute to invisible labour of working-class Australians is ultimately disappointing

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What do we owe the people who raised us, and what does that debt cost us in return? For those who work themselves to the bone keeping a family afloat, when does sacrifice tip into self-erasure?

Break Of Day, a new play by Steve Rodgers, examines the lives of ordinary, working-class Australians who strive and schlep against all odds to make ends meet. A semi-autobiographical work, the play is a tribute to the essential and often invisible labour of supermarket workers, cleaners, nurses and others who keep the country running.

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