She did in with Don Draper in an alley. Now actress Elizabeth Reaser is getting ready to be spanked.  That goes with her role Off-Broadway in "Permission."  “It’s very ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’ But it’s based on Jesus and informed by Christianity,” says Reaser, who played a waitress on "Mad Men" on Sunday. “There is some spanking in the play.”  The play is the latest work from Robert Askins, whose Broadway comedy about a boy and a puppet possessed by Satan, “Hand to God” opens Tuesday.  Like that story, “Permission” takes on relationships and religion. Reaser and Justin Bartha are spouses who try to help their marriage by following principles of Christian Domestic Discipline.  Not familiar with it? Reaser, known from films like “Twilight,” TV series like “Grey’s Anatomy” and plays like “How I Learned to Drive,” wasn’t either before being sent the play. When she read it, she thought Askins, who’s from Texas and still tends bar at Lobo in Brooklyn, made it up.  Nope. ChristianDomesticDiscipline.com explains that a CDD marriage is one “in which one partner is given authority over the other, and has the means to back up that authority, usually by spanking.”  Reaser, now in rehearsals for the play running April 29-June 7 at the Lucille Lortel in the Village, has done her homework, researching the practice online.  “Real people do it and practice this discipline,” she says. “The husband is the HOH — head of household. The wife has agreed to obey everything he’s said. They set rules and she has to obey them. If she doesn’t, if she acts up, then she gets punished. She gets spanked. Or whipped.”  Reaser calls Askins “naughty and poetic and passionate and smart” and says the play is “about power and about sex and monogamy. Women aren’t in power and being spanked and told what to do. But there’s way more to it than that.”
Elizabeth Reaser, seen on 'Mad Men' as a wary waitress, plays Justin Bartha's wife in the new play 'Permission.'