While the transcripts of Sadye and Demi’s tape recorder can get a little silly and twee at times (and the phone transcript at the end made me cry out, “But that’s illegal unless you tell them!” until I realized it was kind of supposed to be real time… I guess?), I can see tweens going for it.
In fact, in the afterword, Lockhart mentions that she borrowed several anecdotes from one of her friends for this novel. The characters are vaguely engaging, in that catchall teenage cast kind of way, the setting is interesting, and, hey, theater? Always fantastic and rife with conflict to fictionalize. Like a lot of young adult novels closer to the younger end of that age spectrum, Dramarama is a breezy read I knocked it out in three hours. Can their friendship survive theater camp?
While Demi succeeds in both the program and his personal life, every day is an uphill battle for Sadye. When they get in, they dream of taking over Wildewood and becoming fabulous royalty, but the reality is a lot more mundane than the fantasy. When the two meet in high school, they become best friends, and apply to Wildewood, a theatrical summer program. How much could it hurt? Well, a lot more than I expected…ĭramarama tells the story of Sadye (birth name Sarah) and Demi (birth name Douglas), two theater geeks who live in Brenton, Ohio, the most unfabulous place on earth. In any case, a young adult novel about theater camp does sound up my alley, doesn’t it? I’ve been involved in theater since high school and the trauma of Debate (oh, Debate), and there’s something fannish about being the only person in your physical community who loves something and the bonds you can make with people who love that thing too. I have vague, associated memories of a young adult panel at Dragon*Con in 2010, but I can’t imagine I picked up there. I have no idea how Dramarama ended up on my reading list.
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