Former North Texas performer Candy Buckley is currently appearing off-Broadway at the Atlantic Stage 2 company. In Make Me, Leslie Ayvasian’s drama about three couples, Buckley plays Mistress Lorraine — a dominatrix who offers counseling to one woman on how to be less of a doormat. So she lets her sit in on a session with a client ( (“No whipping the head, hands or feet, and no place where the organs are close to the skin”).

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