Permission: Off Broadway play

I'm actually surprised no one here has mentioned it. I discovered there is a Christian off Broadway play called Permission about Christian Domestic Discipline where, on stage, the husbands actually spank there wives. Only thing is, from what I've read, the husbands are little more than overgrown boys and the wives only put up with it because they like getting spanked. Now me, I follow the adage that as long as it doesn't harm the tree (the stage/Earth) and is consensual, everything's good but I also believe that if one craves a true Disciplinarian (consensual), unless one is just fooling around & playing, than that individual must be an adult NOT a girl/boy/tran trapped in an adult body. This is because, while the Disciplinarian isn't perfect, they own up to their mistakes and act responsibly as they understand that their charges might look like adults but are either little (children/teens inside), subby or a slave and must have the moral authority to provide the Discipline Needed/craved. By moral authority, I'm not referring to the sick twisted garbage being pushed on us today but the honesty & integrity to know that one's way is not the only way but there is a right and a wrong as a Disciplinarian's job is to help enforce that with their charge.

Sorry, didn't mean to get on a soapbox but having watched the youtube Permission trailer and read the review, I was put off by the interpretation of Domestic Discipline arrangements. Anyway, if I can do this right, the link is: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yset_chr_syc_oracle&p=Permission+off+b roadway+trailer#id=4&vid=ad04118fcc93d6b7e31b265a438a571d&action=click

I've seen the still photo of the red-headed wife bent across his knee before and wondered what play that was taken from.

Now I've looked up a few reviews of the play and they seem very mixed. Everyone agreed that it was a comedic look at this subculture, but most found it implausible and falling flat. When one reviewer said that the "Fifty Shades of Grey" series was a better depiction, despite all its flaws, then that's a pretty good indication that it wasn't stellar. But apparently there are several on-stage spankings (the play starts with one couple stumbling into the other husband spanking his wife in the kitchen with a hairbrush), although there was no indication of how realistic they were. Although I guess some people would see it for the titillation value by itself.

Now if they did one with an F/M orientation it would really intrigue me.

"Now if they did one with an F/M orientation it would really intrigue me."

I second that

So glad to see it's a comedy. It's hard to take CDD seriously.

The husband as a kilt wearing over muscled red haired thick accent of questionable parentage bent over being spanked with his kilt raised and tears running down his red freckled face and the look of pure glee on his blond blue eyed cute as a button female spanker from Iceland with a walnut paddle made in the far north of an unknown tribe trapped in a time warp caused by a force of gravitational anomaly from the planet Horn of Plentiful Strokes much to the delight of his mother-in-law queen of strange delights.

Oh gosh folks my apologies. It seems that being overly tired with aching feet from a fall at work and full of pain killers has influenced my thinking tonight. RK

Perhaps, yet it would almost certainly be reacted to, by the public in general and the vast majority of theater critics, as a total farce--whether or not it was actually intended as one.

Still, even if it were considered to be highly unrealistic by most of those in the audience which watched it, I suppose that exposure to the concept, under any circumstances, would have a long-term positive impact.

Of course, based on the male-chauvinistic image of 'Christians' here in the U.S.A., any treatment of F/M-oriented domestic discipline, even a satirical one, would hardly be considered even remotely 'Christian'...

--C.K.

I saw the play in the theater in New York. And the audience was a mix of theatergoers and hopeful spankos in civilian dress, like me and my wife. The author who at the time had a hit show on Broadway, seemed to have read the articles about Christian Domestic Discipline and sketched out a plot. But the author couldn't decide if it would be a drama exploring the origin of the practice, or a comedy showing the "ridiculousness" of couples wanting to spank or be spanked by each other, regardless of the reason or explanations as to why anyone would want to do such a thing!

It was staged with all the theatrical artifice you'd expect. The women were spanked with those square plastic hair brushes that make a loud sound but produce no sting, you know the ones. Great pains, pun intended, were made to pad the women's bottoms and when bared the flimsiest "belts" were used. The spankings was staged by a stage combat director for the actors safety and not to maximize the audience's enjoyment.

Here's an article about the costume designer: https://nyti.ms/2yNZBbU

If the play was ever staged and revised by actual spankos, it might be worth seeing again.

The Spanking Agent!

It sound absolutely brilliant. The world needs more of this. Too bad it'll never run in Europe. It for certain would make me lift my butt from the chair and for once in a while make it to a theatre. About the reviews, I guess a play like this must have mixed reviews, it's hard to please everyone, in particular when it involves spankings. I guess you have to be in the right mood to enjoy it, unless you're a spanko. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Pity this play hasn't come to Britain yet as far as I am aware. Or perhaps a film studio could buy the film rights like "50 Shades of Grey".