“Fun Home” is a memory play whose narrative unfolds as a series of remembrances triggered by the cartoons created by adult Alison in her studio as the younger versions of herself - Small Alison (Rosalyn Annely) and Medium Alison (Noah Hamm) - play out various episodes from Alison’s past that, in aggregate, find place and being in Alison’s present.
“I want to know what’s true, dig deep into who and what and why and when, until now gives way to then,” adult Alison (Helen Annely) sings in a duet, with her father Bruce (Jeffrey Jene), in the uneven, hardworking production “Fun Home” is being given at Ghent Playhouse. The book is a bold, uncompromising, wickedly funny at times, search for perspective and closure on her relationship with her assertive, complex, closeted father her own sexuality and her father’s suicide, only four months after she came out to her parents during her freshman year at Oberlin College. Vaccination card and photo ID required.īechdel’s “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” was published in 2006 when Bechdel was 46. May not be appropriate for all audiences.ĬOVID-19 safety protocols: Mask covering nose and mouth must be worn at all times in the theater. Running time: 1 hour, 41 minutes, no intermission,
With (principals): Helen Annely, Jeffrey Jene, Noah Hamm, Amy Fiebke, Rosalyn Annely Mensching musical direction by Joanne Mensching. Directed by Michael McDermott and Michael C. From the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel. What: “Fun Home.” Book and lyrics by Lisa Kron. – The past is very much the present in “Fun Home,” Lisa Korn (book and lyrics) and Jeanine Tesori’s (music) remarkable stage adaptation of graphic novelist/cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s memoir about growing up and coming out in a small town in Pennsylvania. Helen Annely as Adult Alison, Siobhan Shea as Joan and Noah Hamm as Medium Alison in as scene from Ghent Playhouse's "Fun Home." PHOTO PROVIDED BY JOHN SHEA
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