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Dag Thelander debuts with a youthful portrait rhymed with teenage binges and petty dramas. Henric Tiselius has read.
Playwright Dag Thelander not only previously rhymed the life of 1970s neoliberal economist Milton Friedman in the musical “The Wizard of Chicago.” He also creates drama for Uppsala Östfronten’s group and as a theme has been devoted to his and others’ growing years, preferably in verse.
In the days of the crown of the extinct theater art, it is not surprising then that Thelander dedicated himself to writing his first book in the same spirit. “Before Someone Dies” is a story in verse about young Jens and John’s great summer party.
A memory, true or fictional, you don’t know, that Dag Thelander believes appeared when he learned that a former close friend had unexpectedly died. The volume, as small as an old hymnal, is dedicated to him. It is (not only in content) like a book for young people, with inserted pictures and short verses. The lines per page are eight, and the rhyme four, a kind of released Hildebrandstrof. A little clunky at times, works fine just as often.
Then his “best friend” decides to take advantage of his friend’s bad sense of alcohol … teenage drunkenness and some pretty shitty triangle drama emerge.
“The ballad about the last party of the summer” takes us to a night without parents where the fussy Jens for once met a girl. Then his “best friend” decides to take advantage of his friend’s bad sense of alcohol … teenage drunkenness and some pretty shitty triangle drama emerge. An example of adolescence in which many can probably recognize themselves. How wicked we could be when we thought we had grown up. We were far from the latter.
The verses advance as if they were a petty youth play, or a cynical cabaret. Where Saga girl feels hazy around the edges. But when the author, in the last pages, addresses his friend who has lost his life, his heart hurts a lot.
