CLIENT Theatre Communications Group services Illustration & design Intimacy is a highly explicit sex & drugs comedy / tragedy staged like a 1950s sitcom. My early designs focussed a bit too much on the sex & drugs, but Thomas was intent on finding the sunny heart at the center of the play. Nevertheless, there’s more than a hint of menace in the serrated teeth of the white picket fence. An early design, rightly deemed “too on-the-nose.” An early design, rightly deemed “too cocky.”