Utility
by Emily Schwend

BEST NEW PLAY Off West End Awards nomination
Amber is juggling two nearly full-time jobs and three kids. Her on-again, off-again husband Chris is eternally optimistic and charming as hell, but rarely employed. The house is falling apart and Amber has an eight-year-old’s birthday party to plan.
As Amber struggles to keep things from boiling over, she is forced to confront reality – she is a stranger to the person she once was and the person she thought she might be.
Emily Schwend won the Yale Drama Prize 2016 for
Utility with judge, playwright Nicholas Wright saying “
Utility is a remarkable play: beautifully written and effortlessly powerful”.
"Brings an unpatronising candour to its graceful, low-key depiction of life in breadline America." The Sunday Times
The UK premiere was produced at the Orange Tree in 2018. Published by Yale Books.
RRP £14.99.