"I can’t think of a recent musical — or play, for that matter — that has done a better job at finding..."

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I can’t think of a recent musical — or play, for that matter — that has done a better job at finding theatrical expression for the wayward dynamics of remembering. That includes the now-you-see-now-you-don’t-aspect of David Zinn’s inspired in-the-round set, in which furniture materializes through trapdoors, as well as the ruthless clarity and sudden, obscuring dimness of Ben Stanton’s lighting.

But most important is the music, a career high for Ms. Tesori (‘Violet,’ ‘Caroline, or Change’), which captures both the nagging persistence of memory and its frustrating insubstantiality, with leitmotifs that tease and shimmer. (John Clancy did the nuanced orchestrations.) The music is woven so intricately into Ms. Kron’s time-juggling script that you’ll find yourself hard pressed to recall what exactly was said and what was sung.

…Much of the music…has the interrogative restlessness of thought in pursuit of certainty, and the ambivalent mix of anger and affection that pervades our relationships with our nearest and dearest. There’s a delicate dissonance in the multiple-part songs, which are all the more affecting for their implicit yearning for harmony.

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- Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater by Ben Brantley (via ink-piss)

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