Strayed is perhaps best known for Wild, her 2012 account of hiking 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, later a movie starring Reese Witherspoon. ![]() The play, which premiered at The Public Theatre in New York in 2016, was adapted by Nia Vardalos (the star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding) from a series of essays in a 2012 book by Cheryl Strayed, who in real life anonymously wrote just such an online advice column for a couple years for The Rumpus. She deals with lusts and dissatisfactions of middle-aged marriages, the problems of addiction, the challenges of grief and the difficulty of forgiveness. Sugar quickly gets to know such people as WTF, who poses that existential eponymous question in place of properly grieving his son, killed in a collision. When the lights come up, Sugar (Tracy Nygard), a freelance writer, is conned into taking over an online advice column called “Dear Sugar.” The job offers no pay, despite the whirlwind of broken lives that end up pouring into her laptop’s inbox seeking help. The culture of therapy provides the framework for Tiny Beautiful Things, a moving but unconventional play that marks the return to live performance after a year-and-a-half COVID break at Oregon Contemporary Theatre.
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