![]() ![]() The scene of the young Bechdel (Brooke Haynes) playing the “airplane game” with Bruce (Zubin Varla) and unwillingness of wearing a dress to the party suggest her tomboy personality. This musical is in the form of story-telling as the adult Bechdel (Kaisa Hammarlund) stays on the stage all the time narrating the memory of her family. The three Alisons do great jobs to present three stages of Alison. ![]() There is also a hidden third stage, where adult Bechdel starts memorizing her family tragedy and narrates it. ![]() The story is organized around the exploration of Bruce’s death and his secret homosexuality. After a few months of her revelation and two weeks of her parents’ divorce, Bechdel is told that Bruce is hit by a truck and died. When she goes to college, she finds out her homosexuality and meets her first girlfriend Joan. In the childhood, she lives in a small town in Pennsylvania with two younger brothers, her mother Helen who is an English teacher and her father Bruce who is a high school English teacher, a funeral director and a crazy artificer. In Fun Home, Bechdel describes two stages of her life. ![]()
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