“ Fun Home bursts with love & feeling.Director Hodgson’s emotion-packed production is a beauty.

In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail. The book centers on Bechdel’s relationship with her late father Bruce Allen Bechdel, who died in what she believes was a death by suicide. In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. ' Fun Home is a musical you need to see a second and third time.don’t miss this perfect production.' Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) is a graphic novel memoir written and illustrated by underground cartoonist Alison Bechdel. Looking for when a specific young actor will be performing in the show? Need help deciding whether this show is suitable for your group? Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood at the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home and through tender, poignant and hilarious vignettes, she grapples with the undercurrent of secrets that exist within families. When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. ' Fun Home doesn’t just find a way to worm itself into your heart, but with its wholesome love and ambiguous imperfections, it also manages to stay there.'Īdapted from Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking graphic novel, Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. One might assume that a graphic novel means weak writing, but Bechdel is as much of a prolific writer as she is a cartoonist. 'An emotionally-packed piece of theatre, full of joy, heart, sorrow and uncomfortable reality.' An expansive meditation on sexuality, Fun Home is a literary graphic novel that anyone with any interest in traditional literature would enjoy. Winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score!īased on the Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel

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