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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
2011: Performed  [[Lashona Art and Theatre Creations]] and Gisele Turner of Happy-go-Lucky Productions at the [[D.U.T. Children's Festival]].
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2011: Performed  [[Lashona Art and Theatre Creations]][https://theatre4youth.co.za/theatre/lashona-art-theatre-creations/] and Gisele Turner of [[Happy-go-Lucky Productions]] at the [[D.U.T. Children's Festival]] and has been taken tour of Natal schools.
 
 
2011: Taken tour of Natal schools.
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:18, 30 August 2024

Lucky Strike is a play by Janine Turner (1950-)

The original text

A play for 6-11 year olds about an unwanted puppy that saves the day and becomes a family’s hero. Set in the Inanda Township, the play, Lucky Strike – which is – focuses on a young boy who is part of a child-headed household. An orphaned puppy wanders into S’fiso’s shack and changes his life.

Created collaboratively between Lashona Arts and Gisele Turner of Happy-go-Lucky Productions it was first performed in Durban at the D.U.T. Children's Festival in 2011.

It has been published as a Grade Seven Set work for English (first language) and Zulu (second language).

The playtext gained second place in the Trinity College of London International Playwriting Competition

and was published in a compendium of award-winning plays by Junkets Publisher.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2011: Performed Lashona Art and Theatre Creations[1] and Gisele Turner of Happy-go-Lucky Productions at the D.U.T. Children's Festival and has been taken tour of Natal schools.

Sources

https://theatre4youth.co.za/production/lucky-strike/

https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/books/turning-her-hand-to-plays-1018312

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