Bondage (play)

Bondage is a 1992 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. It deals with issues of race and racial stereotypes by placing a fully disguised man and woman in an S and M parlor playing out sexual games. The play premiered as part of the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival on March 1, 1992. It was shown in tandem with Suzan-Lori Parks' short play Devotees in the Garden of Love under the title Rites of Mating. It was directed by Oskar Eustis and featured B. D. Wong and Hwang's wife Kathryn Lang.

It is published as part of Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays by Theatre Communications Group and also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service.

v t e Works by David Henry Hwang
Full-length plays	FOB (1980) Family Devotions (1981) Rich Relations (1986) M. Butterfly (1988) Face Value (1993) Golden Child (1996) Peer Gynt (1998) Tibet Through the Red Box (2004) Yellow Face (2007) Chinglish (2011) Kung Fu (2014)
Short plays	The Dance and the Railroad (1981) The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983) The Sound of a Voice (1983) As the Crow Flies (1986) Bondage (1992) Trying to Find Chinatown (1996) Bang Kok (1996) Merchandising (1999) Jade Flowerpots and Bound Feet (2001) The Great Helmsman (2007) A Very DNA Reunion (2010) Cain and Abel (2014)
Film/television	Blind Alleys (1985) M. Butterfly (1993) Golden Gate (1994) The Lost Empire/The Monkey King (2001) Possession (2002) The Affair (2016)
Music theatre	1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988) The Voyage (1992) The Silver River (1997) Aida (2000) Flower Drum Song (2001) Ainadamar (2003) The Sound of a Voice (2003) Tarzan (2006) Alice in Wonderland (2007) The Fly (2008) Dream of the Red Chamber (2016) An American Soldier (2018) Soft Power (2018)