John Herbert "Omphale and the Hero"

Published in Canadian Theatre Review (summer edition 1974)
Copy to the J.H. Archives, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
The Play has been performed for the public.

(1971)
  John Herbert
A play in three acts (drama).

In the small Canadian town of Ottnorot, situated on the border between Ontario and Quebec provinces, Antoinette, the town's librarian had a friendship with an aboriginal Canadian man and was fired from the library. Over the years no one would employ her and she became a prostitute, through her relationships with the Chief of Police and the Mayor. Mac, a vagabond passing through the town, persuades Antoinette to give him a temporary home in her ugly flat. As Antoinette tries to make a new life with Mac who seems to need her, the Mayor and Police Chief are determined to get rid of the new arrival and to punish Antoinette in the process.

4 Characters: Antoinette, Mac, Mayor, Police Chief.

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