Rather than the more familiar broad lawns and verandas, the surrounding woods provide intimacy and a much-valued quiet.
But with 3,800 seats it cannot provide intimacy, and its much-touted new productions of classic works have largely been old wine in new bottles.
The music pulls off the same trick as the vocals: providing intimacy and distance, all in the same breath: a push and pull of showing and concealing".
Having done this work for a few years, James concluded that what he sells is really a dynamic that few outside the profession can understand: providing intimacy without entanglements, relationships or complications.
Freestanding sculptures such as those created by Gabo, Pevsner, De Rivera, Calder, and Noguchi have been used to provide intimacy and visual relief from the severity of the "cult of the cube" in architecture.
Yet there are many nooks to provide intimacy, some looking into the open kitchen with its wood-burning stove, where the pouffed-up pitas that never stop coming are baked.
The erotic feeling of sucking, whether it be a lollipop, water bottle or beer or some aspect of the anatomy like a nipple, thumb or lingam (phallus in Sanskrit), was developed during infancy to not only create a sensory experience while eating but to provide intimacy training for the child and mother (or primary care giver).
But tickets are inexpensive — $35 — and the 107-seat theater provides unusual intimacy.
Although "Ratcatcher" flirts with misery, and its palette is principally a series of glum earth tones with an occasional vivid splash of color, the immensely talented Ms. Ramsay provides an intimacy that is completely mesmerizing.
This could be alienating for the audience, but it provides surprising intimacy: with the actresses' faces projected on the back of the stage, every small triumph, every wince and grimace, is seen.
