'Set in the staff room of an all-girl school, 'Morning Sacrifice' interrogates the stifling sexual morality of post-War Australia. The all female cast are divided by the conflict between a waning Victorian sensibility and the sexual freedom of the coming age.
'The play is a powerful critique of how women’s sexuality was controlled by law, and hostility between women formed a barrier to emancipation.'
(Source: publisher's blurb)
'Setting her action in a large hospital, Miss Blewett has undertaken no simple task in dealing with nursing from both its practical and psychological aspects, complicated in two cases by individual emotional strains. The play covers the hours of one hectic night in the hospital, in which the emotional preoccupations of several of the staff intrude on their professional duties' ('Australian Play' Argus 10 March 1941, 6).
Characters
SISTER MURPHY of the day staff at St. Agnes’
PROBATIONER
SISTER RANKIN (FRANCES)
NURSE RUTH SINCLAIR 3rd Year
NURSE JEAN SPARROW 1st Year
NURSE WILLIAMS 1st Year
NURSE PATSY CURTIN Junior
NURSE SMITH
NURSE ROBERTS
RUSSEL KEANE A Patient
DR. ANGUS MACREADY Resident Doctor at the Hospital
MRS. LEILA CLAYTON A patient
THE MATRON
DR. RICHARD CLAYTON