Throwback Thursday: The Last Yankee Arrives in London 1993

Everyone loves a good comeback story, and The Last Yankee was Miller's.  Check out this Review from The Independent in 1993 when this mini-masterpiece made a smash hit at The Young Vic.

 [Zoe Wanamaker and Peter Davison in the 1993 production of "The Last Yankee"]

"HOW would America's founding fathers respond if they could see what posterity has done to their earthly paradise? That is the loaded question Arthur Miller puts in The Last Yankee, and it prompts his best play for a decade. Those who considered Miller a spent force after The Ride Down Mt Morgan must eat their words.

Like much of his late work, it is a guarded, low-key conversation piece sustained by the barest thread of plot. Plot implies that the writer knows what is going to happen. Miller pretends to no such certainty. Dialogue consists of the small change of casual meetings and domestic habit in a seemingly directionless drift, until, in each of the show's four superb performances, it abruptly ignites into powerful feeling, or snaps shut, imprisoning some victim in a verbal gin trap, and bringing the preliminaries into harsh perspective. "