Begun in 1967, the series is an extended variation on a theme close at hand: the landscape Diebenkorn saw from his studio window in Santa Monica, Calif.
In 2007, at the age of 27, Agbaje emerged from this theatre's young writers programme to instant success with Gone Too Far! Now she's hoping to repeat the triumph with Belong, a work that tackles themes close to her heart: identity and the African diaspora.
Continuity and shared experience are themes close to Sutton's heart.
Other songs expressed self-doubt and alienation, themes close to teen hearts.
New homes and identity are themes close to Cumper's and Talawa's hearts.
For the artist, Indigenous Australia's participation in the war effort as a theme hits close to home.
Vertigo is a brave dramatization of the themes closest to Hitchcock.
But this year, the staging of several homegrown musicals in Mandarin with definite Asian twists is attesting to the local audience's growing interest for musicals with themes closer to home.
You can enjoy the novel as a jolly yarn about faux pas – there's a bit of Kipps in most of us – but you also sense that Wells found its theme a little close to the bone.
