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Eleanor O’Brien is Lady Madeleine, a ProDomme in training in a
… one-woman play that explores the job of dominatrix-in-training at a New York S&M parlour, where O’Brien’s character has secured a job off the Internet that pays $75 an hour.
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O’Brien’s character questions whether it’s worth working a job you can’t talk about with your family. Why make a bundle but sell your soul? But she learns the biz is not that cut and dry, especially if you keep your heart open and reserve judgment. Or is becoming hardened inevitable?
Before the end of her first shift, the audience gets to witness Lady Madeleine’s first independent session with a cross-dresser who “just wants to be wanted,” during which she realizes she, too, shares her clients’ profound need for acceptance. Although their exchange is bizarre and surely breaks the house’s rules, it is beautifully tender and erotic. She learns that by not judging yourself it makes it easier not to judge others.
Comments
I saw her show at the Vancouver Fringe last year. It was pretty good for a person whose involvement in the pro Domme scene lasted less than a day. As I pointed out to O’Brien afterwards, people need all kinds of different hugs.
Posted by: Peter Tupper | August 23, 2006 5:43 PM