Fun Home review: Ingenious adaptation of Alison Bechdel's tragicomic memoir

The production of Fun Home at the Gate delivers on the writer's inspired account of her difficult family life 

Chloe Cody  and Killian Donnelly in Fun Home at the Gate Theatre. Picture: Ros Kavanagh

Fun Home, Gate Theatre, Dublin ★★★★☆

In her own words, the cartoonist Alison Bechdel “leapt” out of the closet after she went to college: a final crystallisation of what she always knew deep down. Her gay father had stayed closeted all his married life, and stepped in front of a truck in a suspected suicide. This terrible contrast is what Bechdel set out to unravel in her 2006 memoir Fun Home, which she dubbed a “family tragicomic”.