"Australian writing legend Dymphna Cusack (1902-1981) was banished to Bathurst by the Department of Education in the early 1940s, punishment for having the temerity to win a worker's compensation case.

This all-woman play, set over three days in the staffroom of a girls' high school, was Cusack's revenge on the department. Nine teachers, a mix of conservatives and progressives, play office games and struggle for favouritism, while an unnoticed tragedy unfolds around them. First performed in 1942, Morning Sacrifice has since become a classic of Australian theatre. "