Please note: Convenience will be a rehearsed reading as part of the companies development process for the script

“Never would have happened in Sajeev’s day. Would’ve milked the cow himself if he had to.
Anything for a customer.”

Caleb, Tegan, Sammy, and Jean work in an understaffed convenience store that needs a new
fridge, a better manager, and a drive-by shooting - anything to make life a bit more exciting.
Convenience is a new comedy drama by Janet Taylor exploring how hard it is to care when
nobody cares about you.

Convenience explores what happens when a corporation takes over a family business,
replacing customer service with a simple drive for profit. It examines the resultant erosion of community by focusing on the staff and the lack of value placed upon anonymous minimum wage work: exploited and treated with disrespect, the employees inevitably enter a depressing cycle in which they treat each other as they are treated themselves.

The play shines a light on workers who, without the uniting influence of a union, are unable to stand up for themselves or achieve better working conditions. In a world where everyone’s lives are being disrupted by industrial action, and with a government intent on undermining the right to strike, Convenience invites us to reflect on what a world without those rights would be like