A chorus of whores and hustlers from St. Lawrence Blvd. in Montreal, known as the "Main" welcomes Carmen home from her sojourn in Nashville. Her plan to write and sing her own Country & Western songs in French is violently vetoed by the bar owners and their lackeys. Fashioned after a Greek tragedy, the play is a parable where autonomy and cultural identity collide head-on with opportunism and oppression.

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« ROSE BEEF : I hear she's written all new songs. / HARELIP : That's what she told me. / SANDRA : But she'll still sing the old hits… / HARELIP : Probably. She didn't say. / SANDRA AND ROSE BEEF : The word's out that… tonight… will be a big night. / HARELIP : Yes. Tonight will be a big night! / HARELIP, SANDRA AND ROSE BEEF : It's like I'm preparing to die from love! »

"Michel Tremblay has steeled his courage and done that which lesser writers dare not do: written a classical tragedy. (...) It is an absolutely fascinating gesture by a powerful playwright who, in his own personal hubris, is attempting to write a successful tragedy where writers of the stature of T.S. Eliot who attempted the same thing have managed at best mixed results. With St. Carmen, Tremblay too has had mixed results. But that, considering the odds, is a formidable accomplishment." Ray Conlogue, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, January 16, 1978.