Winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Original Score, the Gate Theatre is proud to present Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s Fun Home, adapted from the acclaimed graphic novel by Alison Bechdel.Īfter the sudden death of her father, graphic novelist Alison is forced to confront long-hidden familial secrets that come to light. Alison’s story within the book, then, is one of a difficult but ultimately successful growing up, in which Alison becomes aware and accepting of who she is.The Gate Theatre Presents the Irish Premiere ofīased on the Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel After Alison leaves her home and goes to Oberlin college, she begins to explore her sexuality openly, coming out of the closet to her parents, becoming a part of the gay campus community at her college, and beginning a transformative relationship with Joan, her first girlfriend. Through the book’s construction and its dozens of literary allusions, Alison brings the reader inside her point-of-view by showing how she often uses literary, mythical, or historical references in order to frame and contextualize her life. Alison’s journey into self-recording begins with a simple, truthful childhood diary that over time transforms into a much less reliable teenage document that hides as much or more than it captures, and continues through the writing of Fun Home. Throughout the graphic memoir, Alison is open and up front about her desires to dress and act like boys, and she also details how the pressure of her non-conformity to social expectations leads her to develop many strange compulsive behaviors as a child, including rituals, superstitions, and a proclivity for autobiography. The author and protagonist of Fun Home, Alison traces her life from childhood into early adulthood, centering her reflections on the circumstances surrounding her father Bruce’s death as well as the progression of her understanding of her own lesbian sexuality and inclination toward masculinity.
0 kommentar(er)
