“It never occurred to me that it could be very bad and very successful. I thought: if it’s a bad musical, it will just disappear.” She pauses. I had turned down a movie on the grounds that if it wasn’t good – and the chances of that being the case were very high, because most movies aren’t good – it would be awful to have it out there in the world, this terrible version of my most intimate history. “I only agreed to the idea of it at all because I didn’t know what I was getting into. “I could never have foreseen it,” she says of the musical, which opened on Broadway in 2015 and went on to win five Tony awards (it will be staged at the Young Vic in June). Last month, she even had a cameo in an episode of The Simpsons (in “Springfield Splendor”, Lisa Simpson writes a graphic memoir about her childhood called Sad Girl, which Marge illustrates when the book is a hit, Bechdel, Roz Chast and Marjane Satrapi appear alongside them on a panel at a comics’ convention). But with the book’s acclaimed publication, its appearance on the New York Times bestseller list and then the musical, all that changed. Before Fun Home, she had worked in relative obscurity fame, let alone fortune, seemed unlikely ever to be on the cards. Still, the feeling persists that, just lately, she is living a life that is not quite her own. Hasn’t she evolved too, down the years? “Yes! Fun Home is a midlife document for me and I am trying to move on.” She laughs. Why she should find this surprising is slightly mysterious.
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