Last of the Red Hot Lovers
By Neil Simon
Tour Dates
It’s Valentine’s season with love and romance in the air and Rapture Theatre are touring their latest production, Last of the Red-Hot Lovers. The show is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Simon’s 60’s classic about sex, love and seafood.
Barney Cashman married his high school sweetheart and now runs a fish restaurant. It seems the whole world is cashing in on the sexual revolution except him. Barney devises a plan to have one sweeping affair before life passes him by; seduce a woman at his mother’s apartment while she’s at work. The results are both comic and touching as Barney learns a lot about women and even more about life. The zippy one-liners mixed with a liberal helping of pathos make the perfect recipe for a great night out.
Director Michael Emans says, “Barney is a sweet, gentle soul who is no match for the women he brings to his mother’s apartment. Behind some great, laugh out loud moments, is a tender portrayal of a man on the verge of a mid- life crisis. Barney’s story will stay with you long after the laughter has faded.”
Cast & Creatives

Billy Mack
After a career in the fishing industry, the construction industry and then off-shore in the oil industry Billy gave it all up to become a luvvie. He has worked throughout Scotland and, so far, has not been found out!
For Rapture: A Streetcar Named Desire and Last of the Red Hot Lovers.
Theatre includes: Death of a Salesman (Winner of CATS award, Best Male Performer), Little Red and the Wolf, Witness for the Prosecution, Midsummer (a play with songs), The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The Winter’s Tale, Mince?, Changing Kevin’s Story and Cabaret (Dundee Rep). Flameproof (Traverse Theatre/Òran Mór/Aberdeen Performing Arts), White Gold and Cargo (Iron Oxide), Skewered Snails (Iron Oxide/London Southbank), The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Hunted (Visible Fictions), Blithe Spirit (Perth Theatre), Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon, Divided, The Book of Love, Short Spin and Wheesht! (Òran Mór), Some Other Mother by A J Taudevin (Tron Theatre), The Overcoat (winner of Best Actor in Stage Awards 2011), Continuous Growth and Preen Back Yer Lugs! (Ace Productions), A Clockwork Orange, Othello, Ghosts, The Sound of My Voice (winner of Best Actor in the Stage Awards 2009 and nominated for CATS Awards 2009), Peter Pan, Hamlet, Wee Fairy Tales, No Mean City, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and The Twits (Citizens Theatre) and Look Back in Anger, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Romeo and Juliet (Stray Theatre).
Television and film include: Rab C Nesbitt (Comedy Unit/BBC), Bob Servant Independent (BBC), Garrow’s Law (Shed Productions/BBC), Scottish Killers (STV), The 39 Steps, Hope Springs, Dear Green Place, Empty, Legit, Still Game and Monarch of the Glen (BBC), Taggart - Pinnacle, The Royal and Taggart - Saints and Sinners (ITV) and Orphaned and Toll (independent films).

Jane McCarry
For Rapture: The Last Yankee, The Sash and Last of the Red Hot Lovers.
Jane is probably best known for the role of ‘Isa’ in the hit BBC Scotland comedy Still Game and by younger audiences as ‘Granny Murray’ in CBeebies hit Me Too.
Theatre includes: The Cameo (Oran Mor), Still Game Live (SSE Hydro) The Guid Sisters (NTS/Royal Lyceum) The Steamie, The Corstorphine Road Nativity (Festival Theatre) The Wizard of Oz (Citizens Theatre) and Motherhood (Robert C Kelly).
TV credits include: Burnistoun Big Night Out, Still Game (series 1-6), Rab C. Nesbitt, The Sunny, Freshly Squeezed, The Baldy Man and Para Handy.
Film credits Include: Jim the Fish and Goon.
Panto credits include: Cinderella (The Beacon), Cinderella and Aladdin (Kings Theatre, Glasgow), Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella (Alhambra), Cinderella (Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock) and Pinocchio (Pavilion).
Lisa Gardner
Fletcher Mathers

Michael Emans
In his training at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, Michael received a BA Hons in Theatre Directing, and spent his third year assisting Patrick Sandford at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton working on a range of work from classic Tom Stoppard to new writing to Panto!
After leaving drama school Michael assisted Mark Thomson at the Royal Lyceum Theatre for a season. Michael has also directed at the Oran Mor with the winner of the Orange Playwriting Award, “Magnum Opus” and the acclaimed “Burns on the Solway”.
Other previous theatre includes: Over the Mountain by Roy Williams (Creek Road Studio Theatre), Tom Jones (Lillian Bayliss Theatre), The Finishing School by Claire Luckham (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton).
For Rapture Theatre, Michael has directed: Death and the Maiden, The Dumb Waiter, Some Kind of Love Story, Shadowlands, Taking Sides, Clara, An Evening with Gary Lineker, Boys’ Life, Grace, Death of a Salesman, A Kind of Alaska, Habeas Corpus, Rat in the Skull, Oleanna, Macbeth, Perfect Days, Bold Girls, Shang-a-Lang, Assassins, Betrayal, Mr. Peters’ Connections, Insignificance, Speed the Plow, Simpatico, Boy Gets Girl, Your Turn to Clean the Stair, The Old Neighborhood, The Sailmaker, Richard III, Double Top, Boston Marriage, Twisted, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Proof, Misery, Blue/Orange, Damages, The Collection, Frozen, Broken Glass, Shining City, Betrayal 2008, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Hamlet, Gagarin Way, The Sash, The Collection, Shang-a-Lang 2013, Uncle Varick., All My Sons , The Last Yankee , Democracy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf , A Streetcar Named Desire, The Ten Pound Look, The Browning Version , A Kind of Alaska ( 2019) , The Red Lion and Clybourne Park.