Drama galore as Maitisong festival heats up

Here are some of the salivating theatrical presentations for this week.

The Boy Who Walked Into the World
This play is a stage adaptation of the novel The Story of Lucky Simelane. A young man walks into the police station of a small country town. Lucky has been brought up in a small rural black community. But is he really black? ... Issues of identity and belonging crowd in on Lucky, who is thrown off balance by the publicity surrounding him, yet enjoys the attention and sudden 'celebrity' status this brings. In the end, who is Lucky? And can Lucky cope with being Lucky?