![]() ![]() And they were mystified about a musicalization: How could a story about a woman who comes out as a lesbian, only to have her father declare that he, too, is gay and then end his life, work as a Broadway show? (It opens April 19 at the Circle in the Square Theater.) ![]() They had asked about the tension between revelation and privacy. Bechdel and wondered about that moment of missed connection between father and daughter. They had read a graphic-novel memoir by Ms. If the students had been silent and sullen, now they were silent and rapt. “Say something - talk to him,” she sings, urging herself to initiate a conversation of more than chitchat. Bechdel as an undergrad, trying to find the courage to talk honestly with her father during an uncomfortable car ride shortly before he killed himself. The voice of an actress rang out, clear and pained - portraying Ms. So Alison Bechdel pulled out her iPhone, hit play and held it in the air. The gender studies students sat in a circle, just beneath a periodic-table poster, and, bashful or bored, ran out of questions before class was over. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |