Utility (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300224429)

The tenth winner of the Yale Drama Series centers on a young mother dealing with life's many trials

Marking the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series for emerging playwrights, Emily Schwend's powerful work centers on Amber, a young woman struggling to raise a family in East Texas. 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.

Selected from more than 1,600 entries, Schwend's newest play--produced by the Amoralists Theatre Company at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in 2016--vividly captures the economic hardships and relationship difficulties faced by so many Americans today. "Utility is a remarkable play: beautifully written and effortlessly powerful," said contest judge Nicholas Wright. "At every moment the happiness of human lives is put at risk: is there any greater dramatic theme?"

Author: Emily Schwend
ISBN-10: 0300224427
ISBN-13: 9780300224429
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2017
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.50w x 0.30d