The Golden Cockerel is a 1951 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd about Alexander Pushkin.
[3][4] Reviewing the 1952 production, The Age said " it became tedious so that attention wandered long before its end.
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.
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.
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.