Bechdel appears as a successful graphic novelist, a college-age teen on the cusp of self-discovery, and as a child growing up in the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home (the Fun Home of the title).Ī young Bechdel and her father, played by Adam Murphy. The story deals with the effects of the unexpected death of Bechdel’s father and shifts between past and present. Her graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, was published in 2006 and was turned into an award-winning musical in 2013. Charlie Kinrossīechdel, however, is more than a feminist art analyst. Best Book of a Musical (Lisa Kron) - 2015 Tony Awards WINNER BEST MUSICAL - New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer. The cast rehearsing Fun Home ahead of its Melbourne opening on February 10. The idea first appeared in her comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in which one of her characters described the basis on which she decided to watch a film: it had to have at least two women in it they had to talk to each other and that conversation had to be about something other than a man. Alison Bechdel’s name has entered popular culture as the author of ‘ the Bechdel test’: a measure of female status within a work of art.
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