![]() Another father, David Anzuelo’s Fred, fiercely protective of daughter Sarah (Déa Julien) as she embarks on a horny affair with Matthew, has secrets of his own-and underwear to shed when he does. The play is about three suburban family units: a father, James (Daniel Gerroll) grieving his dead wife, living with his sex-obsessed son Matthew (Cauldwell), and becoming slightly bug-eyed about youthful sexual wantonness, in the manner of Piper Laurie in Carrie, which conceals his own sexual desires. The play, showing off-Broadway under the aegis of The New Group, is surely the most ribald stage show currently running in New York. The shenanigans of Intimacy will shake any jaded theater fan from nudity ennui. ![]() Last year, The New York Times’s Ben Brantley noted that there was so much nakedness on Broadway stages, it was becoming standard. In recent years, partial or full nudity has been seen in productions like King Lear (where Ian McKellen won audience admiration not just for his searing performance) and the cancer drama Wit, where Cynthia Nixon’s dramatic shaving of her head overshadowed her disrobing. Back in the 1970s, the cast of Hair freaked out with flesh showing. Daniel Radcliffe famously shed his clothes, and image as forever-Harry-Potter, in a stage adaptation of Equus. Whose were they? The playwright Thomas Bradshaw and Scott Elliott, Intimacy’s director, said these were “stage secrets” they wanted to keep, though Elliott revealed there “might” be sugar in the ejaculatory mix, “for the right consistency.” Was it really just almond milk, I wanted to know afterwards? When was a penis prosthetic used as opposed to the real thing? Cocks and crevices kept appearing on TV screens. The play was so sodden with sex and nudity, and talk about sex and desire and pornography, the audience left dazed.
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