"Bondage" is a one-act play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. The play explores themes of race, gender, and sexual identity through a series of interwoven vignettes. The main character is a young Asian American woman named M Butterfly who is attracted to a white man named Gallimard. Gallimard becomes obsessed with M Butterfly, but he is unaware that she is actually a male spy who is working for the Chinese government. The play delves into questions of power dynamics, cultural assumptions, and the fluidity of identity. Through its exploration of the relationship between Gallimard and M Butterfly, "Bondage" challenges the audience to question their own assumptions about gender, sexuality, and race. The play was first performed in 1992 and has since become a seminal work in the canon of Asian American theater.
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