After stunning audiences with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, Kat Stewart and director Sarah Goodes reunite for the world premiere of Steve Rodgers’ play Break of Day. The gripping new drama – which won the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award and The Australian Writers Guild Prize for Playwriting – is set in Burra Creek, on the edge of a satellite city, home to the world’s largest online retail warehouse. Pam (Stewart) is working the nightshift, while her daughter Rae (Sherry-Lee Watson) is also pulling an all-nighter, for very different reasons. While Rae is at the top of her class, it’s hard to climb the rungs of opportunity when you live in a place the NBN forgot. As the night unfolds, Pam glimpses a better life for her daughter and will stop at nothing to secure it – because sometimes you have to break the rules to break the cycle.

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Sometimes you get stuck with the cards you’ve been dealt, but Pam is determined to shuffle the deck for her daughter.

Out on the edge of a satellite city, is Burra Creek, home to the world’s largest online retail warehouse, and tonight Pam (Kat Stewart) is working the nightshift, while her daughter Rae, back home, is also pulling an all-nighter, for very different reasons.

City folks drive the highway to Burra Creek for the op-shops, Biryani and famous kebab, but for the kids, there’s not so much to do, except hang with someone who makes you laugh, dances with shopping trolleys, and who you wouldn’t mind kissing.

No one sees Pam, as she catches three buses to the warehouse while the rest of us sleep, but as her night unfolds, she sees a better life for her daughter, and she’ll stop at nothing to secure it.