![]() ![]() Letter writers - portrayed by company talent Jomar Tagatac, Mark Anderson Phillips, and Kina Kantor - push Sugar to reveal her real-life persona, but she remains steadfast, keeping her avatar until the play’s very end. You appreciate her enlightened wordsmithing despite the clinical environment. ![]() ![]() Modest pieces of furniture and light fixtures bookend the stage, left to right.īut Sugar’s spoken advice brings both levity and light to the intimate stage production, a welcomed contrast to the doom-and-gloom. Glasses of liberally poured white wine find themselves atop a freestanding cabinet, where she types, often. The kitchen - utilitarian and familiar to anyone who’s stepped foot inside a working-class home - exists as a safe space for “Sugar” (Susi Damilano) to compose her columns from. The stage for the piece is a metallic wonderland of forearm-thick poles designed by the Playhouse’s set producer and props artisan, Jacquelyn Scott. Adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos ( My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Tiny Beautiful Things - which just debuted Saturday at SF Playhouse - recounts the story of Cheryl Strayed’s experiences as an anonymous advice writer whose column “ Dear Sugar” on The Rumpus made her something of an enigmatic national phenomenon. ![]()
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