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Pieter Dirk Uys

PIETER DIRK UYS

  (1945 - )
Nationality:    South African
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Literary Agent:    Macnaughton Lord Representation (Theatrical and Literary Agents)  

the son of a Calvinist Afrikaner father and a Berlin born Jewish mother Pieter began his Dramatic career as a serious playwright and only later switching to one-man revues and stand-up. He is best known for his character Evita Bezuidenhout - a South African equivalent to Dame Edna Everage. In 1994 she even interviewed Nelson Mandela on the television show "Funigalore". He is currently involved with AIDS/HIV activist and educational campaigns. Pieter has written a large number of plays in Afrikaans.

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         Auditioning Angels         Adapt Or Dye         Appassionata         Auditioning Angels         Dekaffirnated         Elections And Erections         Evita For President         Faces In the Wall         Farce About Uys         Foreign Aids         God's Forgotten         Going Down Gorgeous         Hell Is For Whites Only         Just Like Home         Live From Boerassic Park         No Place On Long Street         Panorama         Paradise Is Closing Down         Paradise Is Closing Down (Revisited)         Pity About People         Popcorn         Rise And Fall Of the First Empress Bonaparte         Scorched Earth         Truth Omissions         You ANC Nothing Yet

Auditioning Angels

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Adapt Or Dye

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Appassionata

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A Dramatic profile of a concert pianist

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Pretoria, South Africa    1982

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Auditioning Angels

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Uys takes on South Africa's national traumas of racism, AIDS and child rape. In a vast public hospital, where celebrity face-lift facilities are more important than hallways crowded with AIDS patients, a prominent, powerful family must sort out the supposed rape of an eight year-old girl. Working through a catharsis of pain and anger, they discover new compassion and learn to believe in angels. Uys has described the play as a Drama about "things people don't want to confront, issues that are politically incorrect and often dangerous to exploit or explain." It makes a stirring case for worldwide adoption of AIDS babies

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-    2003

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Pieter Toerien Productions

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satirical comedy Satire

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Dekaffirnated

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Elections And Erections

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Elections & Erections is a journey through the minefields of fear and fun from the point of view of a white South African. Pieter-Dirk Uys pitches his satirical tent at the crossroads of two impending elections-the USA Presidential one in November and the next South African General Election in April 2009. It is his latest, most outrageous attack on political outrage, which underlines the "mock" in democracy. . ..Pieter-Dirk Uys has been raising laughs and AIDS awareness in South Africa and worldwide. He brings with him a host of 'special guests,' all of whom he performs with uncanny accuracy and deep affection, including Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and his most outrageous creation-the glamorous Evita Bezuidenhout, the self-described 'most famous white woman in South Africa'
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Evita For President

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Although the General Election is still two years away, the African National Congress will vote in a new President of the Party at the end of 2007 and the question on most South Africans' minds is: who will be the next President to follow in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki? As the succession battle heats up Pieter Dirk Uys offers a new candidate, Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout, who might eventually be the only choice for President.

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Comedy

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Faces In the Wall

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London Film School    1969

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Farce About Uys

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Foreign Aids

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God's Forgotten

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the future - and the aftermath of an African Armageddon. A group of people who believe White is Right are under Siege

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1st Produced:
OuterSpace Theatre, Capetown    22 May 1975

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in "Theatre Two",Ad Donker, Johannesburg, SA (1981)   0-949937-80-1

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BlackComedy or White Tragedy

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  voice

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Going Down Gorgeous

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Hell Is For Whites Only

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Also known As :"Beyond All Reason"

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Just Like Home

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Expatriate South Africans in London

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in " South African Plays", Hern, London,    -

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Live From Boerassic Park

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No Place On Long Street

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the characters who live and work on Long Street, Cape Town. the Italian cafe owner, the Jewish property developer, the vagrant and the censor.

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Space Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa    1997

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Text available on author's web site in English & Afrikaans,    -

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Panorama

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Dubbed "a comedy of prejudice". Life on Robben Island.

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Grahamstown Festival, South Africa    1987

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Penguin, London, 1989   -

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Paradise Is Closing Down

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A group of embittered white South Africans bemoan their fates and hit the bottle.

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Grahamstown Festival, South Africa    1977

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in "Theatre One",Ad Donker, Johannesburg, SA.
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Paradise Is Closing Down (Revisited)

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the three women in the original play ("Paradise is Closing Down") in this revised play are now three gay guys in drag bemoaning their fate.

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Grahamstown Festival, South Africa    1992

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Pity About People

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Space Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa    1974

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Popcorn

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Space Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa    1973

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Rise And Fall Of the First Empress Bonaparte

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Napoleon and Josephine and the feuding between members of the Bonaparte family

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Scorched Earth

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An estate in Natal that has been in the hands of the same family since the first influx of white settlers which now be taken over compulsorarily by the government

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Truth Omissions

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You ANC Nothing Yet

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