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Emily Skeggs has been acting professionally for about a decade, and she hasn't let a moment of that time go to waste. Throughout her career, she has made
Adapted by Jeanine Tesori (music) and Lisa Kron (book and lyrics) from Bechdelâs eponymous 2008 graphic memoir,
the show opened on Broadway as the first mainstream musical to feature a young lesbian protagonist, collecting five Tony awards, including best musical. That watershed moment merely touched upon the showâs innovative approach to its subject material, and this gorgeous Australian premiere, under the direction Dean Bryant, is a production infused with the sweeping emotion of its source material.
Maggie McKenna, Lucy Maunder and Marina Prior in Fun Home. Photograph: Prudence Upton
The scene is set in the family home in small-town Pennsylvania, where Alison spent her childhood but also where her parents ran the family business, the Bechdel Funeral Home. In one of the first musical numbers, Welcome to Our House on Maple Avenue, the family â consisting of Small Alison (played by Karelina Clarke, a role also shared with Katerina Kotsopoulos and Mia Honeysett), he
Roslyn Packer Theatre, May 1
The past decade has seen musical theatre not just reinventing itself but shredding its own rule book, and two of the most revolutionary shows are playing in Sydney simultaneously.
Hamilton, the greatest revolution of all, is now joined by
Fun Home, which, storming Broadway a year earlier, represents at least as much of a shake-up in story-telling terms â not to mention a quiet revolution in sexual politics.
Gilbert Bradman, Mia Honeysett, Jensen Mazza, Marina Prior and Adam Murphy on the opening night of Sydney Theatre Companyâs Fun Home.
Credit:Prudence Upton
Anyone whoâs read Alison Bechdelâs enthralling graphic novel of the same name would wonder how the hell it could be turned into a musical. But Jeanine Tesori (music) and Lisa Kron (book and lyrics) found ingenious solutions to dealing with the constant time-shifts and all that Bechdelâs cartoons conveyed.
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