The shows that sound the kinkiest are often the ones with the most talking, and this production of Bondage, by playwright David Henry Hwang, is no exception.

Staged in an S & M dungeon, a female dominatrix and her male submissive client are having their usual play session in full, leatherlike bodysuits, chains, and masks.

His fantasies centre on the two role-playing as members of different races, interrogating the sexual politics and power structures of, in the first encounter, a blonde, white woman and an Asian man.

Even though 2017 feels like the necessary time to revisit a ’90s-era meditation on race, racism, and gender, Bondage’s spank is a bit too soft to leave an impression.