Saturday 1st May 2021, 7:30pm, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney
Captivating, heartwarming and heartbreaking, Jeanine Tesori (Music) and Lisa Kron s (Book and Lyrics) adaptation of Alison Bechdel s graphic memoir FUN HOME has finally opened in Sydney after a pandemic induced delay. Director Dean Bryant, supported by Music Director Carmel Dean, delivers an original expression of the multi award winning musical that broke barriers as it put a lesbian character and her discovery of her own and her father s sexuality in the spotlight.
Bringing a book to stage, FUN HOME draws on the creative process that American cartoonist Alison Bechdel used to create FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC, her graphic memoir that was first published in 2006. Accounts state Bechdel s meticulous creative process which included studying old photographs, recreating physical stances to photograph before translating to paper and studying physical elements from her past resulted in the novel taking 7 years to be complet
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