They know he is gay but will not acknowledge it. This letter is from a man who feels suffocated by his parents whom he lives with (he is 21).
DEAR SUGAR RUMPUS HOW TO
Our main goal is to be forthright – to elucidate the nature of our affection when such elucidation would be meaningful or clarifying.” How to deal with parents that don’t accept you as you are We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not. And you’re convinced that withholding one tiny word from the woman you love will shield you from that junk. You’re afraid of all the junk you yoked to love. The best thing you can possibly do with your life is tackle the motherfucking shit out of love. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. “It is not so incomprehensible as you think, sweet pea. He has a twenty year failed marriage behind him, and associates love with ‘promises and commitments that are highly fragile and easily broken.’ This letter is from a dude who is plagued by the question of whether to tell his new girlfriend that he loves her. Here’s eight times that Sugar totally nailed life and love.
DEAR SUGAR RUMPUS FULL
The letters and responses, mini-essays covering every sort of emotional problem, are stunningly full of truth and should probably be read by everyone of reading age. But luckily, its wisdom has been immortalized in the profound book, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There, a collection of the letters and responses from the column. I say ‘was’ because sadly, the column doesn’t exist anymore (it stopped in 2012). Tickets are $20 to $44 at terms of life advice, the Dear Sugar section of, a column once written anonymously by author Cheryl Strayed, was tough to beat. The show includes rough language and mature themes. Tiny Beautiful Things runs Thursdays through Sundays at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 194 W. I’m certain there were some tears in the audience behind all those pandemic masks. While it lacks much shape as a story - you have to wonder what Sugar learns from revealing her true identity - the letters Sugar is called on to answer are powerful even as static pieces. Tiny Beautiful Things is quick and clever and occasionally wise, in a self-help kind of way. What might be the weakest point in the script is when Sugar at last comes clean, and announces, as though this were of great moment, that she is Cheryl Strayed. Ultimately, her readers are able to piece together her biography, and begin demanding her name. Along the way we learn that her mother died of cancer at the age of 45, that Sugar has had her own problems with heroin and meth and has had plenty of familiar romantic problems.
In the play, as Strayed did in the real world, Sugar brings her own life to bear on the advice she dispenses to readers.
Dizney, in particular, brings a Spencer Tracy-like gravitas to the pain and sorrow of WTF and other readers seeking help. In OCT’s production, directed by Inga Wilson, actors Eric Braman, Chelsey Megli and Patrick Dizney engage in high-energy discussion with Sugar that keeps the play moving despite its lack of a strong story arc. In a brilliant stroke by Vardalos, Sugar’s highly engaged readers are depicted in the play by an ensemble of three actors.
DEAR SUGAR RUMPUS MOVIE
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.
DEAR SUGAR RUMPUS SERIES
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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