Tiny Beautiful Things
★★★★1/2
“This type of storytelling is what modern theatre needs – it’s real, it’s raw, and it takes us outside the insular focus of our hectic lives, connecting us. And that is life-affirming.”
Limelight Magazine
“Grips the audience from the first minute to the last…Mandy McElhinney radiates warmth and sincerity.”
The Blurb | Read Here | Vicki Englund
“The play is not all stories of grief and hardship. There is a great sense of levity too.”
Sydney Morning Herald | Hannah Story
Cheryl Strayed is many things; mother, daughter, writer, ex-heroin user and, to make ends meet, an online advice columnist called Sugar.
In the chaos of home, she receives emails from strangers needing help navigating the contradictions of life. Sugar replies with candour, offering her own tough, sweet brand of unadulterated advice which offers healing – and maybe even a few little revolutions. What would you tell someone who is unsure about role-playing as a sexy Santa? Or wants their parents to stop putting each other down? Or the father who feels as dead as his lost son?
Academy Award-nominee, Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) adapted Strayed’s bestseller into a play for New York’s great Public Theater – the result is as revealing and life-affirming as the real stories it tells.
Adapted for the Stage by Nia Vardalos Co-Conceived by Marshall Heyman, Thomas Kail, and Nia Vardalos
Tiny Beautiful Things” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Performance info
Queensland Theatre Brisbane
17 June – 18 July 2023
Belvoir St Theatre Sydney
1 February – 2 March, 2024
Cast
Letter Writer #2 - Sepi Burgiani
Letter Writer #1 - Stephen Geronimos
Sugar - Mandy McElhinney
Letter Writer - #3 Nic Prior
Creative Team
Author - Cheryl Strayed
Writer - Nia Vardalos
Director - Lee Lewis
Set and Costume Designer - Simone Romaniuk
Lighting Designer - Bernie Tan-Hayes
Composer/Sound Designer - Brady Watkins
Stage Manager - Maddison Penglis
Assistant Stage Manager - Tia-Hanee Cleary
