“Eileen
I can’t believe you wrecked our car.
Mara
I did not wreck our car. It broke down. Who’d know that these Volkswagen buses don’t like it when you’re casually riding them down the motorway for four, five hours straight?
Eileen
Casually? It felt like we were on a highway to hell.
Mara
Highway to hell?
Eileen
You were going pretty fast. And you were actually singing Highway to Hell at the top of your lungs.
Mara
It is a great song.
Eileen
For four hours. The same song.
Mara
Rock on, bitches!
Eileen
I am serious. Your driving is scary. I could actually hear children crying in the cars you overtook.”
Brian, Lonan and D., after yet another night of heavy drinking, wake up in Dina’s bar with their mind only set on one goal: Drink some more. Dina is not happy about that and decides to solve the situation by a simple bet: The guys have to behave decently for one night – which entails drinking responsibly and, most importantly, not hitting on every woman that finds her way into the bar.
On the same day, coincidentally, four young ladies, Fleur, Mara, Eileen and Cathie, manage to wreck their car, which is a harsh interruption of their road trip. They end up in the small town where Dina’s bar is located and decide to get a couple of beers. The guys instantly fall in love with the girls. All they have to do now is find a way around that stupid bet of Dina’s.
In the meantime, Sherman and his merry band get ready for tonight’s entertainment at the bar. But first, Sherman has to exercise revenge on Chet, who works at the bar, for stealing his girlfriend.
And This Will be Our Last Song for Tonight is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, set in the present time in a bar somewhere in the middle of nowhere. It is a comedy filled with banter and slightly absurd scenes, but with a honest question at its core: What is the nature of love? And is there such a thing as love at first sight?
And This Will be Our Last Song for Tonight is a play for 12 actors (6 female, 6 male). Also, the play requires a band to perform live on stage.
The play was premiered in June 2017 at the Gaskessel in Bern, produced by The Caretakers.
Read a sample of And This Will be Our Last Song for Tonight