Mr. Grandage's production, by contrast, is quiet, intimate, pared down to the essence of the play: a man's impending obsolescence, the relationships within a family, how one terrible misstep begets worse ones.
While "Sadness Disease" is imbued with a message, it also reflects the kind of fun only a band of five high school friends can have—cohesive, intimate and down for a bit of an adventure.
It's an intimate, slightly down-at-the-heels alternative to the Serena.
[C14.] Getting Too Familiar at Airports Many female travelers do not like the new airport security procedures and intimate pat-downs.
Global Salon, a new series in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, is meant to illuminate its participants' creative paths, mixing music and conversation in an intimate, stripped-down setting.
Australia's Circa offers yet another option: an intimate, pared-down experience that does away with props and fantasy and focusses on amazing acrobatic extremes.
As they all surely know, there is a big difference between attending a crowded reception and pressing a cause at intimate sit-down meals.
Her melodic guide is the Beatles, but she rusticates her songs with the twang of banjo or the hoot of an accordion, turning them into intimate, banked-down dramas.
"It Ain't Pretty" is an intimate, stripped-down ballad.
Air travel entails increasingly intimate pat-downs and arbitrary rules that many experts see as nothing more than "security theater".
A weeklong schedule of pool parties, BBQs and all-night soirees accompany panel discussions covering everything from new DJ technology to intimate sit-downs with the world's greatest electronic music icons.
