Perhaps the play has not been banned in a formal sense, but it has not been performed after the first year's (or possibly the first two years') production produced a storm of protest. I have a clear recollection that during that production a nun took on one of the especially repellent roles. I have not sought to learn about the content of the SMC substitute production, but it is my impression that it is a good deal more like Loyal Daughters, the Notre Dame student production that Father Jenkins hoped would displace the Vagina Monologues. That was surely a forelorn hope. There obviously were students committed to making a show of pushing the limits, and ND's faculty, in its loud protests over the prospect that Fr. Jenkins would ban the Monologues, had demonstrated that it would be quite willing to back the play in the future as it had in the past We will have a news bulletin out describing Loyal Daughters in short order. In brief it does not contain the torrent of graphic description of sexual acts that befouls the Vagina Monologues, but since it describes a number of illicit sexual liasons by Notre Dame students rather than by unknown and sexually deranged strangers, it is an important sense just as, perhaps even more, objectionable than The Vagina Monologues. Nevertheless, since the St. Mary's play and so far Notre Dame's LoyalDaughters (this year with a title stretched to include Loyal Sons) have flown under the radar sceen, the bishops would have had no reason for concern in saying at the St. Mary's hostelry.