The first last day

Thespiskarren Touring Theater

Two completely opposite people are forced by external circumstances to spend a whole day together. After a canceled flight, Livius Reimer and the exhilarated Lea von Armin have to share the last available rental car to get from Munich to Berlin. While the well-adjusted teacher and father-to-be wants to save his marriage, even though his wife Yvonne has cheated on him, the plans of Lea, who in Livius' eyes is the incarnate cliché of a "tofu terrorist", change from one minute to the next. No wonder, as the lively journalist was actually planning to travel to an interview with the "Last Day Men", a group of people who live for one day as if it were their last.

Inspired by the idea, Lea persuades Livius to follow her example and view their road trip through the lens of finiteness. Unaware of the wave of chaos that his agreement sets in motion, Livius agrees to the experiment. Much to the delight of the audience, one bizarre adventure follows the next.

Lea asks a complete stranger in an old people's home for forgiveness - which Livius foolishly interprets as a grandchild trick and forces them both to flee. At a rest stop, Lea rescues a dozen pigs and swaps the brand new rental car for them, whereupon they have to continue their journey in a rusty rattletrap. Together they put up a group of homeless people in a luxury hotel in Leipzig, for which Livius gives away all his savings. After all, he doesn't want to think about tomorrow.

In Dessau-Roßlau, they involuntarily experience first-hand the unconventional massage methods of a Chechen wellness guru and meet Lea's husband in a Hamburg pizzeria, who is not at all pleased to meet his bride again after she dumped him during the wedding ceremony.
And as if all this wasn't turbulent enough, the smartphone always delivers discrediting travel impressions to Yvonne when it seems most inconvenient - just a few hours before the marriage counseling is due to begin...

Despite all the comedy, star author Sebastian Fitzek also poses very existential questions about meaning, commitment, individuality and followership in his novel "The First Last Day". At the end, an unforeseen twist awaits the audience, allowing them to see the world with different eyes.

A touching story about truth, overcoming, love and friendship with lovable characters and quirky humor.

Tickets will be available from September 8, 2025 at Ticket-regional.de and at all known advance booking offices.

Play based on the novel by successful author Sebastian Fitzek
Dramatization by Lajos Wenzel

With Carolin Freund, Thomas Jansen, Katarina Schmidt, Thomas Krutmann

Director and stage designer: Andreas Lachnit
Costumes: Monika Seidl