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Serious theater is a little off the beaten path for Penis Blog. We're more comfortable in the realm of erectile dysfunction than drama dysfunction, although there may be some cause-and-effects going on there. Anyway, here's a very short piece called "The Godot Monologues" which was writted to protest a ban on women performing in "Waiting for Godot".

“A German theater has been barred from staging Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece Waiting for Godot with women in the two key roles, Agence France-Presse reported. The orders came from Beckett’s German publishers.... “This manner of defending the holy grail is a bad joke [said the manager of the German theater where it was to have been performed].” He noted that the publishing house explained that its action was taken out of respect for Beckett’s wishes that women never perform ...