evita.co.za| EVITA SE PERRON Darling Station P.O. Box 175 Darling, 7345, South Africa Bookings: Beryl +27 22 492 2851 / 31 Fax: +27 22 492 2831 |   Pieter-Dirk Uys and his sister, the pianist Tessa Uys |
Pieter-Dirk Uys - Evita 
"Pieter-Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945 and has outlived official apartheid, which ended in 1994." This is how his CV starts in his website www.Evita.co.za. You will also read a (fictitious) CV on Evita, who is Pieter Dirk Uys as "The most famous white woman in South Africa! " on stage. You will find both at the far-famed little theatre in Darling in the Swartland, and also Bambi Kellerman (Evita's younger sister), Ouma Ossewania, his hundred year old grandmother and other "women".
He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1969, leaving with a B.A. (Drama) before
studying in the UK at the London Film School. He has been associated with both
the Space Theatre in Cape Town and Johannesburg Market Theatre during the 1970s
and 1980s, and he has written and performed over 50 plays, revues and one-man
shows in South Africa and abroad.
In 1994 he created a 12-part television series 'Funigalore', in which Evita
Bezuidenhout interviewed the new democratic leaders, including Nelson Mandela.
Most of his satirical work is available in South Africa on video.
Some of his over 50 plays and one-man shows:
| Paradise is closing down Panorama God's Forgotten Faces in the Wall Just like Home Adapt or Dye One Man One Volt Funigalore You ANC nothing yet! Truth Omissions | Tannie Evita praat Kaktus Ouma Ossewania Live from Boerassic Park For Facts Sake Dekaffirnated - or calling a spade a spade Foreign Aids Going Down Gorgeous Concentration Camp Auditioning Angels | Books: Paradise is closing down and other plays, Penguin, 1989 |
The other remarkable thing about the show is how it works on so many different levels: as a musical drag show, as stand-up comedy, as biting political satire, as a tragedy about a fallen woman, as a live cartoon-style commentary on issues of the day, and as pure diversionary entertainment.
Owen Williams on Concentration Camp in Cape Argus
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