Genre | drama play |
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Running time | 60 mins (7:30 pm – 8:30 pm) |
Country of origin | Australia |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | 2BL |
Hosted by | ABC |
Written by | Catherine Shepherd |
Directed by | John Cairns |
Original release | 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] [4]
Reviewing the 1952 production, The Age said " it became tedious so that attention wandered 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 really came to life and the most important thing in any drama is that its characters shall live." [5]
"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. " [6]
Genre | drama play |
---|---|
Running time | 60 mins (7:30 pm – 8:30 pm) |
Country of origin | Australia |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | 2BL |
Hosted by | ABC |
Written by | Catherine Shepherd |
Directed by | John Cairns |
Original release | 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] [4]
Reviewing the 1952 production, The Age said " it became tedious so that attention wandered 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 really came to life and the most important thing in any drama is that its characters shall live." [5]
"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. " [6]