An unforgettable and groundbreaking musical, Fun Home explores the haunting pull of memory and the power it has to alternately destroy or shape, our identity. This Tony Award-winner for Best Musical is based on the 2006 graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel and charts a womans quest to better understand her late. 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. From the perspective of autobiography studies and theory, the musical adaptation of Alison Bechdels important graphic memoir Fun Home is a. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the 'Fun Home. Since coming out as a lesbian in 1980 at the age of 19. Lesbian Cartoonist Alison Bechdel Countered Dad's Secrecy By Being Out And Open The musical and graphic novel Fun Home describe Bechdel's coming out, and her dad's closeted homosexuality. As she watches her father’s self-loathing consume him, Alison recognizes her own experience of discovering, and ultimately embracing, her identity. Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Alison Bechdel is the author of the long-running syndicated comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. 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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