John Herbert "The Butterfly and the Nightingale"

Unpublished
This play has been performed for the public.
Copy to the J.H. Archives, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

(1984)
  John Herbert
Butterfly Pic

A fairy-tale play for children in one act.

In the Palace of King HeeHaw and Queen Glitta, preparations are underway for the weddings of their two children, Prince Pox and Princess Poo to royal partners from two other lands, Princess North and Prince South. The Royal Gardener and his beautiful daughter, Rosina, are expected to keep the Palace rooms filled with flowers. Princess Poo, jealous of Rosina's beauty, sends the gardener's daughter into the woods to find yellow flowers, Poo's favourite colour. While hunting for a legendary white bird, Prince Pox mistakes Rosina for the bird and wounds her badly. Pano, an ugly-looking young shephard, cares for Rosina and falls in love but much happens with the Royal Family before their fates are resolved.

10 Characters: King, Queen, Poo, Pox, Rosina, Gardener, Pano, North, South, Soldier.

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