Interior lives steal the spotlight in Jeff Tabnick’s “The Intimacy Effect”

Making your way down to East Williamsburg’s Vital Joint theatre feels a bit like finding your path to purgatory. You enter a residential building, head down a musty grey stairwell flooded with purple light, and end up in a small, dark basement theatre. As the lights go up on Jeff Tabnick’s The Intimacy Effect, you understand that you’re not  in purgatory but you’re certainly close: it’s a cramped New York City apartment, one in which you’re about to get p