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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Georgia>Geauga Theater’s ‘The Last Lifeboat’
rewrites history while it entertains</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Georgia>Tommy Carosielli</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Georgia>Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning
Journal,</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Georgia>It’s been suggested that
history is written by the victors.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Georgia>Not according to playwright
Luke Yankee’s “The Last Lifeboat,” which casts light on the sinking of the RMS
Titanic on April 14 and 15, 1912 that is not commonly shone.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Georgia>According to Yankee or,
rather, Francis Wilson’s 2011 book “The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay” on which his
play is based, the history of the high-profile accident that took 1,503 lives
was written by the American press. Newspaper owners and editors wanted to
sell papers and identifying a viable scapegoat would do just
that.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Georgia>Ismay was an upper-crust
Englishman who went to the best schools, married the right society girl though
he was in love with someone else, and inherited the prominent British White Star
Line shipping company that owned the Titanic. He was the perfect
target.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><FONT
face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">Newspaper reports suggested
that at 1.45am, an hour and a half after the Titanic hit the iceberg, the coward
Ismay – dressed as a woman – sneaked aboard the very last lifeboat to leave on
the starboard side.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: "><FONT
color=#333333>As half-filled lifeboats floated away, their passengers listened
to the screams and groans of the dying but Ismay refused to turn and look at the
sinking ship. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Georgia>In 2014, the truth according
to Yankee received its world premiered at the University of California-Irvine,
where audiences experienced the innermost thoughts of a sympathetic Ismay at
various stages of his life and learned that he saved as many people as he could
before stepping into that lifeboat with no more women and children in
sight.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Georgia>“The Last Lifeboat” is
currently on stage the Geauga Theater and, as directed by Michael J. Rogan, is
captivating.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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