This is what theatre is all about." - New York Post " …a quiet, imploding depth charge of emotion…Tautly pertinent…unlike anything else Miller has so far shown us.
Popular choice for community theatre productions and is an idealĬhoice for high school drama contests and festivals. The play is rarely performed professionally, it The play has become aįavourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and, w hile The Last Yankee received a simultaneous premiere in 1993 at the Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) in New York City and at London's Young Vic, before transferring to the West End's Duke of York's Theatre. Last Yankee is an exploration of American society, unfulfilled dreams, and the complexity of relationships. As roommates, Karen and Patricia have been sharing stories about their husbands – and the final meeting between them all, demonstrates the price and rewards of even strained marriages. Karen Frick, though, has gone farther down the path of no-recovery than even the more frequently hospitalized Patricia. The older, more affluent couple, share an equally tense marriage despite their prosperity. Purposefully foregoing her anti-depression medication for a number of weeks, Patricia has begun to display a new clarity of thought that promises to shatter irrevocably the status quo of her life with Hamilton.
His wife, Patricia, the daughter of Swedish immigrants and herself the mother of seven children, cannot reconcile what she considers to be Hamilton's deliberate under-achievement with her own family's grasping attempts at assimilation and affluence. Leroy Hamilton (the last Yankee of the title and a descendant of America's founding father Alexander Hamilton) has spent his life as a highly skilled carpenter. Their experiences and situations – one finds dignity in manual labor andįamily life, the other in affluence and industry. With depression and addiction to prescription drugs, the men collide in Inside the facility, each of their wives recovers from a nervous breakdown. Two men, one in his late-forties, the other twenty years older, meet in the waiting room of a New England state mental health facility only to discover that they have done business together in the past. Last Yankee tells the story of two couples brought together at a clinic for the chronically depressed. Last Yankee is a funny, compassionate and profoundly moving play that gives hope to us all. In a world where so many people experience mental health concerns, The A poignant lookĪt two couples where the women share an overwhelming sense ofĭespair, and the men try to bring them back to the lives they'veįled.
Two very different men – one a successful businessman and the other a carpenter – have come to visit their wives in a psychiatric hospital. Last Yankee is a full-length drama by Arthur Miller. Last Yankee has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues and Male/Male Scenes.
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