The Last Yankee by Arthur Miller

The Last Yankee is a present-day state mental hospital somewhere in New England.  Patricia Hamilton is recovering from depression, and this may be the day she feels strong enough to go home.  But a visit from her husband Leroy, a descendant of one of America's founding fathers, coincides with that of a successful businessman, John Frick, who has come to see his newly-admitted wife, Karen.  A clash of values and emotions upsets them all.  In Arthur Miller's compelling play success, it seems, is always risky, but can only be achieved by rejoining and making sense of an imperfect world beyond.

'a fine & moving play...Like all Miller's best work, it effortlessly links private and public worlds by connecting personal desperation to insane American values' Guardian

'The Last Yankee reasserts Miller's unquestionable dominance of American drama...No other American playwright has had his range of experience and feeling; none has combined his magisterial moral judgement with his warm and forgiving sense of humour and his ability to inhabit completely, like Shakespeare or Ibsen, every character he creates...Miller writes with a sense of pain and laughter, with an understanding of the heart's endless struggle with the mind, which is characteristic of a writer on an unending journey of discovery' Sunday Times