She was an intimate player in one of the strangest, most celebrated love stories of the century, that between Lytton Strachey, the gay writer, Dora Carrington, the painter who loved him fiercely, and Ralph Partridge, the war hero who married Carrington and was loved by Lytton.
It is a chamber work scored for an intimate 15-player orchestra that includes a piano part.
A host could greet you by name, usher you to a favored table or dispense some tiny favor or bit of decency and you could imagine yourself part of an intimate club, a player in the grand show of Manhattan night life.
The "Lucretia" score calls for just 8 singers and 13 players, an intimate ensemble that redoubles the impact of a plot about the violation of privacy.
"It's about trust, honesty and an intimate knowledge of your players," Hadden said, as if he could already guess the absence of such attributes in a divided Welsh camp.
In an intimate world in which players, playwrights and theater managers rubbed shoulders with one another constantly, and where jealousies and rivalries abounded, the secret that Shakespeare didn't write his own plays somehow never leaked, not just for 25 years or more during his lifetime but long after.
We talk about the appeal of the women's game and, as with everybody I have spoken to, she cites the same factors: it's cheap, entertaining, sporting, the quality is high, the fans have an intimate relationship with the players, who stay behind after the match until every last selfie has been taken.
He joins Carter, the noted bass player, for an intimate musical conversation at Mezzrow, a new club from the folks behind the nearby musician's haven Smalls, which is set up for duo performances.
As the Olympics is only half way through stay tuned to Crane.tv for even more coverage in the coming week including a further sporting challenge for our team, Olympic cabaret and even an intimate moment with US basketball player Kobe Bryant.
An intimate setting: the players are accessible, the fans are part of the action.
TED favors tight shots for sensitive moments — "to gaze into a speaker's eyes" — and to make an intimate frame for small Web-player screens.
