5/30/2023 0 Comments Alison bechdel fun home musicalAn unforgettable and groundbreaking musical, Fun Home explores the haunting pull of memory and the power it has to alternately destroy or shape, our identity. Come explore the graphic memoirs story, themes and literary tropes with us before you see The Spots production of the musical adaptation in January. As Fun Home progresses, Alison is drawn deeper and deeper into her memories, finally entering into them, desperate (but unable) to reverse her father’s self-destruction. Based on the musical and Alison Bechdels graphic memoir, Fun Home concerns Bechdels discovery of her own sexuality, her relationship with her gay father. As she watches her father’s self-loathing consume him, Alison recognizes her own experience of discovering, and ultimately embracing, her identity. As Alison reflects on her past, she struggles to make sense of it, particularly her relationship with her father, Bruce, a closeted gay man and the owner of the family business - the Bechdel Funeral Home (“fun” home, as it’s known to young Alison and her brothers, John and Christian). The Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home traces the coming-of-age of lesbian author Alison Bechdel, from her youth, to her years at Oberlin College, and finally to the present, where Alison, now grown, is struggling to write her own graphic autobiography.
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