![]() Onstage, three actresses play Alison, in her “small” (8-year-old), “medium” (19-year-old), and adult (43-year-old) guises. ![]() Utilitarian to his aesthete.”) An inventive musical adaptation by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron comes to the Circle in the Square Theatre April 19 following an Off Broadway run at the Public Theater in 2013. (Parallels all but ended at sexual preference: “I was Spartan to my father’s Athenian. (Suicide was never proved, though he had taken to leaving his copy of Camus’s A Happy Death around the house in the days prior to the accident.)Īlison Bechdel, best known for her eponymous test for works of fiction-to pass which at least two female characters must talk to each other about something other than men-explored her relationship with her father in the 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. And then there was the thing with Roy.” Alison: “Roy, our babysitter?!” Several months later, Bruce Bechdel was dead, struck by an oncoming Sunbeam Bread truck. Imagine Alison Bechdel’s feelings when her mother punctuated her dismay by outing her husband, Bruce, over the phone: “Your father has had affairs. ![]() Too often, coming out entails shock, disapproval, or some combination of the two. ![]()
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