Bondage presented by Pinky Swear Productions at Anacostia Playhouse

Bondage

Anacostia Playhouse
2020 Shannon Place SE Washington

Deep in the bowels of an S&M parlor, a dominatrix and her client are getting ready to play out their regular game. Concealing their faces and ethnicities in head-to-toe leather, the two enact elaborate fantasies, using racial stereotypes and sexual mythologies to fulfill each others' wishes. But when one of them goes off script, the line between role-play and reality begins to shift, as do the identities and desires of the two people behind the masks.

Presented by Pinky Swear Productions

Thru - Nov 23, 2013

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Price: $20

Show Type: Drama

Running Time: 1 hour, with no intermission

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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."

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- Nelson Pressley

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."

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- Chris Klimek

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:

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- Tim Treanor

Bondage presented by Pinky Swear Productions at Anacostia Playhouse

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