Bondage at Anacostia Playhouse

Washington Post - Somewhat Recommended

"...The woman's role is especially sharp. Her submissive client wants her to come out on top, but it's her job to make him earn it. The actress playing the dominatrix argues with speed and mischief, upending expectations each time the man thinks he's pinned a "relationship" where he wants it. The man is effective, too, and it would indeed spoil things to reveal their names, because the climax depends on the possibility that they might peel off these masks."

DCist - Recommended

"...In fact, Hwang and the actor playing Teri are never funnier than when demonstrating that the all-American work ethic applies to the sex trade as much as to any job. More, I'll wager, than to most white-collar gigs. A dominatrix must isolate and extract the client's barely admitted desires. That's a tall order. But then so is asking a pair of actors to convey complex emotion while depriving them of their faces."

DCTheatreScene - Somewhat Recommended

For David Henry Hwang, bondage is the frame, but it is not the game. Nor – though it seems otherwise at the outset – is race the game. Mistress Teri starts the festivities out by assigning roles: