It’s no surprise Jamie Brickhouse is a skilled speaker. The man is a several-time storytelling champ and memoirist with a national profile, after all. Touching and laugh-out-loud funny, “I Favor My Daddy: A Tale of Two Sissies” tells a tale of a family chock-full of big personalities and, probably, possibly, homosexuality, lovingly laid atop an exploration of thorny questions like whether parents and children can ever truly know one another.
At times, pacing felt rushed and character voices blurred together, but the narrative is masterfully woven: At the climactic revelation, you’ll find — like Brickhouse did in real life — that signs were there all along. Presented by Jamie Brickhouse at Open Eye Theatre; 7 p.m.
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