The Last Yankee is a play by Arthur Miller, which premiered on January 5, 1993, at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City.
But a visit from her husband Leroy, a descendant of one of America's founding fathers (but referred to as a "Swamp Yankee"), coincides with that of a successful businessman, John Frick, who has come to see his newly admitted wife, Karen.
Both women are patients at a mental institution, and act one sees the two men meet for the first time in the waiting room on visitors' day.
Karen has not long been institutionalized, and Frick is having a difficult time coping with her mental illness, while Patricia has been in and out of institutions for many years.
Patricia and Karen have become friendly during their time together in the ward, and act two sees the four characters brought together inside, where a picture emerges of a society whose members feel obscurely cheated and where success is equated with failure.