The Last Yankee
By Arthur Miller
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To celebrate the centenary of Arthur Miller, Rapture Theatre is producing one of the legendary writer’s last great plays.
Leroy Hamilton, a descendant of one of America’s founding fathers and “The Last Yankee”, lives a modest life as a carpenter and has eschewed the pursuit of the American Dream. This has estranged him from his wife, Patricia, who is in hospital and suffering from depression. Over the course of one day, Leroy and Patricia try to come to terms with Leroy’s choices and Patricia’s ‘illness’, and they take a tentative step towards reconciliation and a brave new future.
The Last Yankee reflects Miller’s themes of the devastating consequences for those who fail to achieve the mythical riches of the American Dream.
Humorous and ultimately uplifting, The Last Yankee is classic Miller not to be missed.
Rapture Theatre is proud that The Last Yankee will be part of the Scottish Mental Health Film and Theatre Festival 2015.
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Cast & Creatives
David Tarkenter
For Rapture: All My Sons, The Last Yankee, Betrayal, Hamlet and The Collection.
Theatre includes: The Knight of the Burning Pestle (The Globe Theatre Company), The 39 Steps (Vienna), Beauty and the Beast, Jack and the Beanstalk, Arsenic and Old Lace, Absent Friends, The Rivals and The Winter’s Tale. David has a long association with the Mercury Theatre having previously appeared for the company as Abanazar in Aladdin, Muley in The Grapes of Wrath and in the title role of King David, amongst countless others.
Television and film credits include: Falling, Harry, Quayside, Heartbeat, Micawber, Inspector Rebus, Byker Grove and, most recently, 55 Degrees North and Lawless.
David has also worked extensively as a voiceover artist, including recording numerous audio books, commercials and radio plays.
Pauline Turner
Pauline Turner trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and has worked extensively in theatre, film, television and voice-over.
For Rapture: All My Sons, The Last Yankee and The Collection.
Theatre includes: Mill on the Floss (Shared Experience/international tour/West End), The Unconquered (Stellar Quines Theatre Company), Freedom Play (Southbank Centre/London Literature Festival), Top Girls (Citizens Theatre), Measure for Measure (Peter Hall Company/RSC), Sun Is Shining (BAC/Brits off Broadway Festival, NYC), Bring Me Sunshine (Manchester Royal Exchange), One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Citizens Theatre/Edinburgh Festival) and Emma (Watford Palace Theatre).
Film and TV credits include: Young Adam (Warner Bros/Hanway), Two Thousand Acres of Sky (BBC), Martin Chuzzlewit (BBC/WGBH Boston), Casualty (BBC), Goodnight Mister Tom (ITV/Carlton), Bad Boys (BBC), Taggart (STV), Cuffs (BBC/Tiger Aspect) and The Key (BBC).
Stewart Porter
For Rapture: Democracy, The Last Yankee, All My Sons, Shang a Lang, The Collection, Broken Glass and The Sash.
Theatres includes: National Theatre, Mermaid Theatre, Citizen’s Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Scottish Opera, Paine’s Plough, 7:84, Tron Theatre, Borderline, Theatre Babel, TAG, Oran Mor and also in Dogstar Theatre’s international hit, Factor 9.
Stewart was nominated for Best UK Actor 2003 for his performance in The Fever at the Citizen’s Theatre. He has appeared throughout the UK on stage, TV, Film and Radio.
Television includes: River City, Shetland, Tutti Frutti, Taggart, Down Where the Buffalo Go, Tumbledown, The Bill, Hamish Macbeth, Jeeves and Wooster, Boon, Young Person’s Guide to Becoming a Rockstar, Take the High Road and many many others.
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).
Natalie Clark
For Rapture: The Last Yankee and A Streetcar Named Desire.
Glasgow based actress Natalie Clark has had a varied career with experience in radio drama, audio description, film and has been the face of various TV ads over the years.
Other credits include: Britannia Rules (Paisley Arts Centre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Ramshorn Theatre) and The Crucible (Cottiers Theatre).
Recent credits include: Wired (InMotion Theatre Company); Love or Money (CCA); Waiting For Gabriel (East Kilbride Arts Centre); and Still Game (BBC). Natalie can also be seen in the upcoming rom-com Perfect Strangers (Magic Money Films).
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.
Lisa Sangster
Lisa trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Her design credits include: Waves, Alice Cooper, Blood Wedding, Cars and Boys, The Snow Queen, Whisky Galore, Baby Baby and Talking Heads, Dundee Rep; O is for Hoolet, Arches, How to Choose, Trigger; News Just In, The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam, Double Nugget, Smalltown, Little Johnny’s Big Gay Wedding, Promises, Promises, Little Johnny’s Big Gay Musical, Random Accomplice; Rantin, Jump, Transform: Dumfries, National Theatre Scotland; Misper, Scottish Opera; Educating Ronnie, Utter/Macrobert; BBC Comedy Showcase, BBC Scotland; My Romantic History, Borderline; Carthage Must be Destroyed, Ustinov Studio; The Pearlfisher, strangers, babies, Broken, Distracted, White Point; Traverse.
Davy Cunningham
For Rapture: A Streetcar Named Desire, Blue/Orange, Hamlet and The Collection.
Davy Cunningham has been a freelance Lighting Designer since 1985. He has lit more than 300 productions, of which roughly 200 were operas and 100 plays, in 26 countries and more than 200 theatres. Recent operas include Verdi’s La Traviata for Baden Baden Festspielhaus, Pucinni’s Turandot for Bregenz Festspiele. and Don Pasquale for Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf.
Recent work has included The Hanging Gardens by Frank McGuinness at the Abbey and Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at the Gate in Dublin.
Craig Johnston
For Rapture: Democracy, The Last Yankee and All My Sons
Show Information
1 hour 15 mins
Suitable for 14+ years
A series of post show discussions are being held at some of our tour schedule venues. These talks will include the opportunity to hear from invited See Me speakers.