| The Golden Cockerel | |
| Format: | drama play |
| Runtime: | 60 mins |
| Start Time: | 7.30pm |
| End Time: | 8.30pm |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Home Station: | 2BL |
| Presenter: | ABC |
| Director: | John Cairns |
| First Aired: | 26 November 1951 |
The Golden Cockerel is a 1951 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd about Alexander Pushkin.[1] [2] It was one of a series of plays from Shepherd on writers.
The play was produced again in 1952, twice.[3]
Reviewing the 1952 production, The Age said " it became tedious so that attentionwandered long before its end. Nor did the prolonged and thoroughly artificial death scene at the end improve matters. Here was a story but the people in it never reallycame to life and the most important thing in any drama is that its characters shall live."[4]
"Well-born, Pushkin is shown spend-ing a wild, brilliant youth. The play reveals his developing social conscience, how he sees, himself as a golden cockerel who warns the world of peril and crows for liberty. He is exiled, then he marries the empty-headed Natalia. It is through his love of her and his jealous suspicions that, instead of remaining a golden cockerel, he falls prey to vulgar passions and descends to the behaviour of a game-cock. "