Gisele Turner’s international award-winning play Lucky Strike is set to go on a short
tour of township schools in this last week of April. The play, which was runner
up in the 2011 Trinity College of Londons International Playwriting
Competition, had its first staging at Durban University of Technology as part
of the first DUT Childrens Festival inaugurated by Debbie Lutge and was
subsequently chosen as a setwork in the Pelican Reader Grade 7 English Reader
here in South Africa.
For children aged between 6 and 11 years of age, the play is
entitled Lucky Strike and looks at a
day in the life of a boy who lives on the outskirts of Inanda Township. He is cared
for by his teenager half-sister who heads up the household since the death of
their mother and absence of their father.
The Lucky Strike tour will take place from April 25 through
to May 3 and schools in the Inner west region including Clermont, Dassenhoek,
Kwasanti, Oaklands and Tshelimnyama townships.
Any schools interested in hosting Lucky Strike after the tour can contact Mlu Ngidi on 073 399 1929.
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