The Pub at Pelican Creek is a 1960 Australian stage play by Chris Gardner which had a number of performances in Australia through the 1960s.
[1] It was commended in the 1958 General Motors play competition.
[2][3] The Bulletin wrote "Speech is authentic, slangy but not too slangy, lively and decorated with an occasional colorful new expletive, coined by the writer one suspects, but such as might well take hold: “Flowering bullfrogs !
” was a favorite with the audience.
Laughter, tears, tension, a happy ending: the play could be tightened a bit, but then there seems no reason why it... should not pass into the repertory of useful plays for amateur groups.