''Bird with a Medal'' is a 1961 Australian stage play by

Ru Pullan Ru Pullan (1916–1993) was an Australian writer of radio, television, novels, short stories and theatre. He was one of the leading radio writers in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s. Writing as Luke Hardin, Cass Durand and Lew Rand, he published 50 ...

. It concerned delinquency among young people. The play was part of the realist drama tradition in Australian theatre at the time.

Reception

''Variety'' said Pullan "has not mastered stage technique." 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.Bird with a Medal
at UQ

Premise

A girl runs away from a happy home and becomes involved with bodgies.

References

{{reflist 1961 plays 1960s Australian plays