| Bird with a Medal | |
| Setting: | A boarding house room |
| Premiere: | [1] |
| Place: | Melbourne Little Theatre, Melbourne |
| Orig Lang: | English |
| Subject: | teenage delinquency |
Bird with a Medal is a 1961 Australian stage play by Ru Pullan. It concerned delinquency among young people.[2] The play was part of the realist drama tradition in Australian theatre at the time.[3]
Variety said Pullan "has not mastered stage technique."[4]
The Bulletin said Pullan "tells us nothing more than we have come to expect from the pen of the typical honest, observant pressman. Like him he never really succeeds in getting behind the headlines, but he has raised a burning social issue from the printed column to the stage."
A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland.[5]
A girl runs away from a happy home and becomes involved with bodgies.