Fun Home, Young Vic, review – a quirky, haunting, heartbreaking coming-of-age tale

Daddy, daddy, come here, OK, I need you! What are you doing?” The opening words of this quirky, stirring, heartbreaking American musical – staged on Broadway in 2015, where it won five Tonys – are sung (angelically) by a 10-year-old girl. 

A plea familiar to fathers everywhere? It’s not every doting dad, though, who performs what Bruce Bechdel then does for his little princess, Alison: lie down and let her balance on his feet, so she can imagine she’s flying like Superman, and seeing all of Pennsylvania.

Does perform? No, did. Past tense, relived with the added perspective of adult hindsight; the child observed by her older self. Alison Bechdel described Fun Home, her bestselling graphic novel/memoir...