At Break of Day - A Play for Young People

Events become more and more dreamlike, indeed nightmarish, taking them not just along the road home but through a whole century and its conflicts

Along the way they quarrel, make up, quote Shakespeare, fight, comfort each other, joke, escape from prison, and betray each other

One of them records his thoughts in a notebook

Interwoven with the story of the soldiers is that of a young woman who has made her own journey to a distant land, to discover what happened to her great-grandfather

He disappeared after a long-distant war and she searches the battered notebook that once belonged to him for clues

The play presents an absurd universe where time and place shift alarmingly and which is haunted by the echoes of great disasters and great hopes, great poetry and great sorrow