The Break (play)

[5] Laura Masters is preparing her flat for the arrival of Raoul, her ex-husband and father of their 17 year old son, Terry.

Her neighbour Sybil goes to AA meetings with Laura, and has a son, Peter, who is friends with Terry.

Terry and Peter come back having had sex with Gloria and Bet to find Laura drunk.

[6] During rehearsals, direction John Trasker attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting for research.

[10] The Sydney Morning Herald called it "a worthless piece of sensation-mongering... a play about alcoholism which is also an ill-bred thriller.

"[5] In October 1959, the play won equal second prize in Little Theatre Guild competition under the title The Bust.

An earnest stupid play which piled incredible situations on to even more unbelievable people, a setting which suggests a flat laid out on nightmarish lines, trite production filled with appropriate cliches of movement and gesture...to provide one of the worst nights in recent theatre.