Fun Home, Olivia Laing, Oscar Wilde, The Deer Hunter
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir 'Fun Home' on stage at the Young Vic in London reviewed by Jen Harvie from Queens Mary University of London, a novel inspired by Kathy Acker from Olivia Laing, Film historian and broadcaster Ian Christie on the 40th anniversary of Michael Cimino's film, 'The Deerhunter' and a new biography by Michèle Mendelssohn on Oscar Wilde's time in America. Mathew Sweet presents.
Fun Home - which explores family, memory and sexuality, runs at the Young Vic in London from June 18th to September 1st 2018. Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre & Performance, at Queen Mary University of London Olivia Laing is the author of 'The Lonely City' and her new novel is called 'Crudo'. 'Making Oscar Wilde' by Michèle Mendelssohn is out now. 'The Deer Hunter' is in cinemas from July 4th.
Producer: Fiona McLean
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| 1:07.9 | Michelle Mendelssohn is here to describe the construction of Oscar Wilde from the |
| 1:12.3 | surprising materials of Irish nationalism and blackface minstrelsy. 40 years after the release of the |
| 1:18.3 | Deer Hunter, Ian Christie will track its heroes from Pennsylvania to Vietnam and back. And the writer |
| 1:24.7 | Olivia Lang is among us, speaking to us in her voice and the voice |
| 1:28.7 | of the punk novelist and provocateur Kathy Acker. Cassie, by which I mean I was getting married. |
| 1:36.4 | Thank you very much, Olivia, Acker, Acker, as it were. A bit later, we may find out where |
| 1:41.6 | one stops and the other begins. First though, a story about a gay |
| 1:46.0 | girl and her gay dad, fun home by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, which was first lived by |
| 1:52.7 | its author, then rendered by her as a painfully honest comic book, then taken by others and transformed |
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