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| Alyssa Armstrong, Anand Khalsa, and Ava Newton photo by Robert Waller |
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"...Fun Home, which is based on Alison Bechdel's 2006 autobiographical graphic memoir "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic." This intense, yet also at times funny, family drama centers on the coming out of the story's central lesbian character and the suicide of her closeted gay father, while the older version of the character looks back to see if she can find a connection between those two events. With an excellent cast, flawless direction, and impressive creative aspects, Spotlight Youth Theatre's production is perfect. If you're thinking, "Wait, what? A youth theatre doing a show with adult topics such as homosexuality and suicide?," you can rest easy. In the gifted hands of director Kenny Grossman the story soars, without any of the adult subject material being watered down, and the cast, made up mostly of older teenagers, are delivering portrayals that are sensitive and full of truth. The three actors playing the adult characters are giving performances equal to ones I've seen from actors twice their age...." -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)
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