Pieter Dirk Uys: 4 books
Pieter-Dirk Uys: The Echo of a Noise
A memoir of then and now
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
South African icon Pieter-Dirk Uys has been on stage over 7000 times. In this funny and tender memoir, Uys reveals the person behind the persona. We meet his forbidding, musically driven Afrikaner father, his brilliant but troubled mother, and Sannie Abader, his Cape Flats ma who raised him in Pinelands,...
Between the Devil and the Deep
A Memoir of Acting and Reacting
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
‘”Adapt or die!” PW Botha spat out at us from the television news. And so the new show was called Adapt or Dye.’ The comedy of Pieter-Dirk Uys has been with us for as long as we can remember. In this funny, witty and poignant memoir, he takes us on a journey through his life in the theatre...
Elections & Erections
A Memoir of Fear and Fun
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
At last, Pieter-Dirk Uys, South Africa’s most famous political satirist, entertainer and AIDS activist, has penned a memoir. He takes us back to his upbringing in apartheid South Africa, his early days in the theatre, and the birth of his alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, the ambassador to the fictitious...
A Part Hate, A Part Love
The Legend of Evita Bezuidenhout
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Evita Bezuidenhout, still regarded as the most famous white woman in South Africa, was born Evangelie Poggenpoel of humble Boer origins in the dusty Orange Free State town of Bethlehem on 28 September 1935. Illegitimate, imaginative, pretty and ambitious, she dreamt of Hollywood fame and fortune,...