FUN HOME

written by LISA KRON and JEANINE TESORI
adapted from the graphic novel by ALISON BECHDEL

1/4” model

1/4” model


Advanced Scenic Design Final: Conceptual Scenic and Multimedia Design


Fun Home follows the story of Alison Bechdel’s life as she reconstructs her experiences from child to adulthood. Throughout the musical we see Alison untangle a web of memories and carefully reconstruct them into an understanding of herself and her father. The play also takes us through Alison’s journey to discover her own sexuality and how that journey is intricately woven into her father’s.  It asks the audience to think about how the people around us approach and deal with subjects of sexuality and gender and how that shapes how we present ourselves in the world. The aspects of presentationalism, duality, secrets, and reconstruction present in the world will be supported through the use of projections mapping the modern day studio that Alison works in and transforming it into linework representations of each of the places she visits in her past, in the spirit of the style of Alison’s cartoon drawings. Lines and pictures get more abstract and frenetic as the piece heightens in emotional intensity, in relation in the beginning where everything is neat, orderly, and immaculately presented - playing with control as Alison brings us into her memories versus when she is drawn into them herself, swept into the past. In the relationship between the studio and the projections, the malleability to an extremely static place echoes how Alison moved through her life, able to work within the confines of the way her father raised her, bringing her own movement to her stagnant surroundings.