Article: Fun Home comes to Brisbane!

Adapted from Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking graphic novel, Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality, and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father’s hidden desires. Adapted by Jeanine Tesori (music) and Lisa Kron (book and lyrics), the musical has garnered numerous accolades including:

Winner: Five 2015 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book
Finalist: 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Winner: Two 2014 Obie Awards, including Outstanding Musical
Winner: 2014 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical
Winner: Three 2014 Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Musical
Nominee: Three 2019 Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical

“FIVE STARS. Fun Home has enormous intelligence and sensitivity. It's not your ordinary
Broadway musical, because it is extraordinary.” – Time Out New York

“The best Broadway musical in years, with the finest score in a decade.” – Huffington Post

“Fun Home is a beautiful, sensitive, insightful, innovative and heartbreaking musical,
addressing themes including sexual identity, family, memory, truth and lies, and
suicide... The show is ingeniously structured, using a non-linear narrative that moves
back and forth in time to amplify the theme of memory and the impact of our parents and
family on who we become.” – Limelight, 2021

Fun Home performs at Pip Theatre August 29 - September 14, BOOK NOW!

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