Lend Us Your Ears presents “Tiny Beautiful Things” by Cheryl Strayed

Powerful stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s “Tiny Beautiful Things” next up for the Bellingham Theatre Guild’s reading series, April 6th, at 2pm.

LEND US YOUR EARS presents Nia Vardalos’ emotional adaptation of the best-selling book for the Pay-What-You-Will play-reading series.

2/26/2024- Bellingham WA – LEND US YOUR EARS, the reading series at the Bellingham Theatre Guild, presents Tiny Beautiful Things, the hit stage adaptation of renowned author Cheryl Strayed’s experience as an advice columnist for an alternative newspaper adapted by Nia Vardalos. Experienced to great acclaim across the country, and the source material of a Hulu TV series, Strayed’s epistolic stories perform on April 6th, 2024, at 2pm.

The Pay-What-You-Will performance, directed by Sean Walbeck, follows Cheryl Strayed’s odyssey as an anonymous advice columnist named Sugar while waiting for the publication of her book “Wild.” Through the letters and e-mails she receives and sends, audiences ride a rollercoaster of funny and harrowing strifes humanity needs help dealing with. Nia Vardalos, of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” adapted the play and performed it at the Public Theater, establishing the tone of Strayed dealing with received trauma and ecstasy as simply as folding laundry, a chore that needs to be done without fuss, directly. The combined vision of Vardalos’ and Strayed’s play stormed the professional stages of the pre-COVID US, and has become a recurring staple since theatres re-opened. Tiny Beautiful Things will be performed by talented local actors Alycia Francis, Evan Mueller, Siara Woods-Lindholm, and Marcus Sholdez. Tiny Beautiful Things contains extremely graphic language and adult situations, dealing deeply and specifically with, among others, issues of acceptance, grief, sex, and incest. This material is in no way appropriate for children or people who can be easily triggered or offended.

LEND US YOUR EARS (with the mission: Good Plays Read Well) produces matinee readings with local actors in front of the curtains, with general admission seating and the audience choosing what it wants to pay. No reservations necessary and any questions can be directed to LUYE Artistic Director Sean Walbeck (sean@gigglewax.com, 360-647-9242).

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
www.concordtheatricals.com

The Bellingham Theatre Guild is a volunteer theater that has been serving the Whatcom County community since 1927.