Our Warehouse
EVELIN: "She always has to make things difficult. It’s my turn. I am Evelin and I work at the warehouse. But this is only temporary, until I can find something better, of course. VERA: “Let her dream, babe. You know how it goes … It’s only a pipe dream!”
In a megastore warehouse four female workers. Hour after hour, day in day out, weeks on end stack the shelves with new stock. They actually live in the warehouse as they can only go home on Sundays, except of course if something unpredictable was to happen. Each one of them dreams of a different, better life, they are convinced this situation is only temporary. Even though at one point, they start kindling a desire to rebel, this idea soon dies out and the wheels of the capitalistic world, based on exploitation, continue to turn.
- No. of roles
- 5–9
- No. of male roles
- 1–4
- No. of female roles
- 5
Script extract
VERA: There. Don’t forget. And now a smoke break.
SUZY: Yippie, a smoke break.
EVELYN: What are we playing?
VERA: Girls, I can’t do this anymore. I just can’t! I’m fed up.
SUZY: Tomorrow is Sunday! Girls, we’re going home tomorrow.
VERA: We don’t know that for sure.
MARIA: On Sundays, they sometimes let us go home. Unless it’s a holiday or some special event, like autumn sales or Black Friday.
SUZY: Tomorrow’s nothing special. Tomorrow we’re going home.