Intimacy and the Theater
By Jonathan Mandell. Most people these days understand intimacy to be: 1.) A euphemism for sex, 2.) A synonym for love, 3.) Physical closeness, 4.) Emotional closeness"or some combination of all four. I'll assume that most theater people are not pushing for more sex on stage (with the possible exception of Thomas Bradshaw, whose ironically-titled "Intimacy" was an explicit look at amateur pornographers in the suburbs…