Jens Liljestrand comments "The mystery of Lasse Maja and Hamlet"

RECENSION | Children's theater. I admit that I've never really liked the books on Lasse Maja, Martin Widmarks and Helena Willis The extremely successful series to date also includes nearly 50 photos and books, as well as numerous movies, computer games, social games, mobile games, music CDs and an SVT Christmas calendar.

No harm to the two dear intelligent children, but the unreasonable and cruel puzzles they manage to break through never reflect higher literary ambitions with the authors. The narrative schema is repetitive and the intrigues could be written in Excel form.

What impresses, however, is the consistency with which Widmark and Willis achieve an aesthetic that casually characterizes the adult world. Their Valleby is populated by men and women always too fat or too skinny, always equipped with wrinkles, car rings, cheeks and big ears that catch the eye, shorts everyday and Small town clowns with crumpled clothes and panic.

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Each dash is recreated

Now the drama with direction and Scripture Jonna Nordenskiöld The establishment of "Lasse Maja and Hamlet Mystery" testifies to a dedicated love for this particular aesthetic. Willis herself has created costumes that accurately reproduce each strip of dashes in her illustrations, from Barbro Palms (Hulda Lind Jóhansdóttir) roasted blue hair and Dino Paninis (Eric Sterns) illiterate priest's costume (David Books) bounce hard. The studio work bears witness to a rewarding effort, which still goes into the tight and compelling song numbers – especially the Lasse titlesDavid Arnesen) and Maja (Tiril Wishman Eeg-Henriksen) in his parade number before the break.

For the eyes and ears, it is a craft work with a great audience, with a warm touch, that brings us one evening to the theater of Valleby, where a set of anonymous adults but conceited will create "Hamlet".

Artistic without interest

But then it was history. Even here, Nordenskiöld is the unfaithful faith of the original – unfortunately, it can be said. The story of the king of stolen chronicles and the search for villains by the two detectives are typical of Lasse Maja's formula, and it's a disappointment to me. Nordenskiöld has a beautiful wink Shakespeare Get started in a game, but otherwise, the performance seems mechanical, despite the qualities mentioned above.

"LasseMaja and Hamlet Mystery" becomes simply artistic without interest when the director adds nothing new to a concept already well treated, and I wonder about the reason why the resources of the national scene are affected to a production that is more franchised than the independent theater.

Jens Liljestrand is an assistant cultural giant at Expressen. He is current with the book "The man in the forest." A biography of Vilhelm Moberg ".