The Box Under the Bed
Here it is. A chronological list of my plays, revues, films, videos and books. I’ve added the casts and the director, as well as where the piece was originally performed. Funny feeling to look at a list like this. The person responsible for all this must be stark-
FACES IN THE WALL play
1969 London Film School: Pieter Uys, Ian Lowe, Vari Sylvester – dir: PDU
1973 Space: Chris Prophet, Val de Klerk, Peter Piccolo, Sue Boekstein – dir: PDU
1980 Market: Terry Norton, Roberta Durrant, Jonathan Rands, Murray Angus-
POPCORN play
1973 Space: Bill Flynn, Peter Piccolo, Val de Klerk, Paddy Canavan – dir: PDU
PITY ABOUT PEOPLE play
1974 Space: Blaise Koch, Val Donald, Michele Maxwell – dir: PDU
1974 The Company JHB: Ziona Garfield, David Eppel, Kathy Kahn – dir: PDU
SELLE OU STORIE play
1974 Space: Christine Basson, Lynne Maree, Marthinus Basson, Johann van Heerden – dir: PDU
1975 The Company JHB: Christine Basson, Val de Klerk, Danny Keogh, PDU – dir: PDU
2004 Civic JHB: Evita Bezuidenhout (PDU), Greg Melvill-
JUST HILDA! revue
1974 Space: PDU
SNOWHITE & THE SPECIAL BRANCH revue
1974 Space: Lynne Maree, Bill Curry, Vincent Ebrahim, Jonathan Sherwood, Andrea Fine, Neels Bezuidenhout, Diane Vlotman, Marthinus Basson – dir: PDU
1976 Labia Theatre CT: Mary Dreyer, Dawie Malan, Trix Pienaar, Chris Galloway, PDU, Martin Clohessy – dir: PDU MD: Peter Brauer
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GOD’S FORGOTTEN play
1975 Space: Christine Basson, Lynne Maree, Jacqui Delhaye, Esther van Ryswyk, Blaise Koch – dir: PDU
1976 Market: Christine Basson, Lynne Maree, Michele Maxwell, Wilma Stockenström, Blaise Koch – dir: PDU
1979 La Mama NYC: Maggie Soboil, Lisette Lecat, Madeleine le Roux, Christina Avis-
KARNAVAL play
1975 Space: Trix Pienaar, Cornelia Stander, Vincent Ebrahim, Christine Basson, Grethe Fox, Margot Luyt, PDU – dir: PDU
1981 Market: Magda Beukes, Dale Cutts, Kevin Smith, Lynette Luyt, Joey de Koker, Margi Lewis – dir: Dawie Malan
STRIKE UP THE BANNED revue
1975 Space: Trix Pienaar, PDU, Vincent Ebrahim, Jacqui Delhaye, Maria Jensen – dir: PDU
1976 Grahamstown Festival and tour: Lynne Maree, Blaise Koch, Wilma Stockenström, Michele Maxwell, PDU – dir: PDU
1978 Market: PDU, Rika Sennett – dir: PDU
SKOTE! play
1976 Hoërskool Jan van Riebeeck students, Limpie Basson – dir: Esther van Ryswyk
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE FIRST EMPRESS BONAPARTE play
1977 UCT students, Margot de Villiers, Robin Lake, John Caviggia – dir: PDU
1983 PACT: Jacqui Singer, Ron Smerczak, Michael McCabe – dir: William Egan
PARADISE IS CLOSING DOWN play
1977 Grahamstown Festival and tour: Val de Klerk, Melanie-
1977 Market: Val de Klerk, Melanie-
1978 Edinburgh Festival and London: Naomi Buch, Barbara Kinghorn, Helen Bourne, Frank Williams – dir: Roberta Durrant
1980 Granada TV: Estelle Kohler, Naomi Buch, Shelley Borkum – dir: Howard Baker
DIE VAN AARDES VAN GROOTOOR play
1977 Baxter: Antoinette Kellermann, Mary Dreyer, Chris Galloway, Bill Curry, Lida Botha, Marthinus Basson – dir: Dawie Malan
1978 Market: Magda Beukes, Eon de Vos, Rina Nienaber, Antoinette Kellermann, Allan Dysel, Nomsa Nene – dir: Dawie Malan
INFO SCANDALS revue
1979 Pretoria: Richard Haines, Sybil Coetzee, PDU – dir: PDU
1979 Baxter/Market: Chris Galloway, Lida Botha, Bill Curry, Zaza Vorster – dir: Dawie Malan
UYSCREAMS FROM THE WIMPY ARCHIPELAGO revue
1980 Market: PDU, Tessa Uys, Martin Clohessy – dir: PDU
UYSCREAMS WITH HOT CHOCOLATE SAUCE revue
1980 Market/Baxter: PDU, Tessa Uys, Thoko Ntshinga – dir: PDU
ADAPT OR DYE revue/video/DVD
1981 South Africa: PDU
1985 Tricycle Theatre: PDU
1986 Boulevard Theatre Soho: PDU
1987 Toronto, Canada: PDU
1988 Purcell Room London/Edinburgh Festival Traverse Theatre/Hackney Empire and Donmar Warehouse London/Holland: PDU
HELL IS FOR WHITES ONLY (aka BEYOND ALL REASON) play
1982 Market: Amanda Strydom, Bill Curry, Denise Newman, Margi Lewis, John Whiteley, Marius de Vos – dir: PDU
APPASSIONATA play
1982 Pretoria/Market/Baxter: Tessa Uys, Chris Galloway – dir: Mario Schiess
FARCE ABOUT UYS play/DVD
1983 Market/tour/Baxter: PDU, Chris Galloway, Thoko Ntshinga – dir: Dawie Malan
TOTAL ONSLAUGHT revue/video
1984 Pretoria/Market/Baxter/tour: PDU – dir: Dawie Malan
SKATING ON THIN UYS film/DVD
1985 Brigadiers/BME: PDU, Thoko Ntshinga, Chris Galloway – dir: Bromley Cawood
BEYOND THE RUBICON revue/video
1986 Market/tour/Nico Malan: PDU – dir: PDU
AN UYS UP MY SLEEVE TV special
1986 SABC: PDU – dir: Roy Sargeant
ACROSS THE RUBICON TV special
1986 PBS/USA: PDU – dir: Lionel Friedberg
NO ONE’S DIED LAUGHING book
1986 Penguin
PANORAMA play
1987 Grahamstown Festival: Lynne Maree, Susan Coetzer-
1988 Pretoria/JHB: Lyn Hooker, Susan Coetzer-
1988 Cape Town: Bo Petersen, Marion Holm, Lulu Gallo, Peter Krummeck – dir: Ralph Lawson
1988 London King’s Head Theatre: Jemma Redgrave, Natasha Williams, Di Kent, Ken Sharrock – dir: Penny Cherns
PW BOTHA: IN HIS OWN WORDS book
1987 Penguin
REARRANGING THE DECKCHAIRS ON THE SA BOTHATANIC revue
1987 Market/Baxter/tour: PDU, Chris Galloway – dir: Ralph Lawson
SKATING ON THIN UYS (title for ADAPT OR DYE in Australia) revue
1987 Sydney Footbridge Theatre Australia: PDU
CRY FREEMANDELA – THE MOVIE revue
1987 Market: PDU, Chris Galloway, Sello Maake ka Ncube – dir: PDU
1988 Nico Malan: PDU, Chris Galloway, Arthur Molepo – dir: PDU
JUST LIKE HOME play
1989 Baxter/Market/UK: Shaleen Surtie-
EVITA’S INDABA TV series
1989 M-
BITE THE BALLOT TV special
1989 Channel 4 UK: PDU – dir: Penny Cherns
EVITA’S LAST DECADE TV special
1989 M-
SCORCHED EARTH play
1989 Market: Margaret Inglis, Fiona Ramsay, Val Donald Bell, David Butler, Pierre Knoesen, Gaynor Young, Arthur Molepo – dir: PDU
A KISS ON YOUR KOEKSISTER revue/video
1990 Market/Baxter/UK/Holland: PDU – dir: Janice Honeyman
A PART HATE A PART LOVE book
1990 Random Century
1994 Hond (2nd edition)
AN AUDIENCE WITH EVITA BEZUIDENHOUT revue
1990 Market/Baxter/tour/UK/Holland: PDU, Lizz Meiring – dir: PDU
SÜD-
1991 Germany: PDU
EEN LEVEN APART book
1991 Jan Metz
MESSAGE TO MAJOR TV special
1991 BBC: PDU, Lizz Meiring – dir: Francis Gerard
STAND UP SOUTH AFRICA! revue
1992 Israel: PDU
DIE VLEIROOS play
1992 Nico Malan/tour: Lynne Maree, Chris van Niekerk, Theresa Cloete, Joey de Koker – dir: PDU
1995 Civic JHB: Trix Pienaar, André Stolz, June van Merch, Anna-
JEZUS IN JOHANNESBURG book
1992 Amber (Amsterdam)
PARADISE IS CLOSING DOWN (REVISITED) (aka GOING TO HEAVEN) play
1992 Grahamstown Festival/Wits JHB: PDU, Chris Galloway, Stephen Raymond, Randall de Jager – dir: Lynne Maree
AN EVENING WITH PIETER-
1992 Baxter: PDU
THE POGGENPOEL SISTERS revue
1993 CT/tour/JHB: PDU, Godfrey Johnson
AN AUDIENCE WITH AN AFRICAN QUEEN revue
1993 UK: PDU, Lizz Meiring
NEGERKÜSSE revue
1993 Germany/Austria/Switzerland: PDU
ONE MAN ONE VOLT revue
1994 SA/USA/Holland: PDU
EVITA’S FUNIGALORE TV series
1994 M-
BAMBI SINGS THE FAK SONGS cabaret
1995 CT/JHB/tour: PDU, Godfrey Johnson
YOU ANC NOTHING YET revue
1995 Baxter/tour/UK/Holland/USA: PDU
TRUTH OMISSIONS revue
1996 Baxter/tour/UK/Holland: PDU
TANNIE EVITA PRAAT KAKTUS monologue
1996 Perron/tour: PDU
LIVE FROM BOERASSIC PARK revue
1997 Baxter/tour/UK/Holland: PDU
THE ESSENTIAL EVITA BEZUIDENHOUT book
1997 David Philip
OUMA OSSEWANIA PRAAT VUIL monologue
1997 Perron/tour: PDU
2019 Perron/SA tour: PDU
2020 Woordfees Stellenbosch: PDU
NO SPACE ON LONG STREET play
1997 Baxter: PDU – dir: Lynne Maree
GOING DOWN GORGEOUS play
1998 Perron/tour: PDU
2000 SATV series – dir: Robert Davis
EUROPEANS ONLY revue
1998 London: PDU, Laverne Archer
NOËL & MARLENE play
1998 Perron/tour: PDU, Godfrey Johnson
BAMBI’S XMAS KÊRELS revue
1998 Perron: PDU, Godfrey Johnson
TANNIE EVITA’S CRYSTAL BALLS monologue
1998 Perron: PDU
DEKAFFIRNATED revue/DVD
1999 Market/Baxter/SA tour/UK/Holland: PDU
THE MARSHROSE play
1999
CONCENTRATION CAMP cabaret
2000 Perron/Grahamstown Festival/On Broadway, CT: PDU (Bambi Kellermann), Godfrey Johnson
FOR FACT’S SAKE revue
2000 Perron/tour: PDU
SYMBOLS OF SEX AND STATE revue
2000 CT: PDU, Warona Seane – dir: PDU
2000 JHB: PDU, Nomsa Nene – dir: PDU
TANNIE EVITA’S COOKSISTERS monologue
2000 Perron: PDU
EVITA: LIVE AND DANGEROUS TV talk show
2000 e.tv: PDU – dir: Roger Smith
TREKKING TO TEEMA novel
2000 www.teema.iol.co.za
2001 ComPress
FOREIGN AIDS revue/DVD
2001 Perron, UK: PDU
2002 SA tour: PDU
2003 Australia, USA: PDU
2005 USA: PDU
ELECTIONS & ERECTIONS book/eBook
2002 Zebra Press
HAVING SEX WITH PIETER-
2002 Lodestar: PDU – dir: Roger Smith
SURVIVAL AIDS video
2003 Lodestar: PDU – dir: Roger Smith
AUDITIONING ANGELS play
2003 Pieter Toerien Productions/JHB and CT: Clive Scott, Jo da Silva, Thoko Ntshinga, Paul du Toit, Nandi Nyembe – dir: Blaise Koch
THE END IS NAAI (aka ELECTIONS & ERECTIONS for UK/Australia) revue/DVD
2004 Perron/tour/UK/Australia: PDU
IT’S JUST A SMALL PRICK video
2004 Lodestar: PDU – dir: Roger Smith
THE GREAT COMEDY TREK 4 part TV series
2004 SABC2: compilation PDU shows from the 1980s
SAME OLD STORY play
2004 Civic JHB: Bambi Kellermann (PDU), Greg Melvill-
ICONS & AIKONAS revue
2005 Perron: PDU
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP book/eBook
2005 Zebra Press
PIETER-
2006 Market JHB: PDU
HELLO DARLING revue
2006 Perron: PDU
BLAST FROM THE PAST! DVD
2006 NuMetro Collection: PDU
EVITA FOR PRESIDENT revue/DVD
2007 Spier/Market/Baxter/Sneddon/Tricycle UK/Perron: PDU
DARLING! THE PIETER-
2007 dir: Julian Shaw (www.darlingmovie.com.au)
DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT TV talk show
2007 SABC2 producer Born Free Media: PDU, Loyiso Gola – dir: uZaninkosi
ELECTIONS & ERECTIONS revue/DVD
2008 USA: PDU
2009 Sneddon/ Civic JHB/Baxter/Perron/USA: PDU
MACBEKI play
2009 Little Theatre Cape Town: Thema Mchunu, Lerato Motshwarakgole, Gabriel Marchand, Gerald Dhunrajah, Rudi Swart, Chase Downs – dir: Christopher Weare
2009 Market Theatre, Johannesburg: Fezile Mpela, Nthati Moshesh, Lizz Meiring, Mpho Osei-
EVITA’S KOSSIE SIKELELA cookbook
EVITA SE KOSSIE SIKELELA kookboek
2010 Umuzi
FE-
2010 Perron: PDU
DESPERATE FIRST LADIES revue
2010 Johannesburg/Port Elizabeth/Perron: PDU
2011 Berlin/SA tour/Baxter/Holland/London/Perron: PDU
F.A.K. SONGS AND OTHER STRUGGLE ANTHEMS cabaret
2010 Cape Town: PDU as Bambi Kellermann with Godfrey Johnson, musical director, and Bambi's Bokkie Band: Rayelle Goodman, Heather Roth, Mac McKenzie, Hilton Schilder – dir: PDU
DIE POGGENPOELS PRAAT revue
2011 SA tour: PDU
2019 SA tour: PDU
EVITA’S BLACKBESSIE (in English and Afrikaans) book
2011 Umuzi
NEVER TOO NAKED book/eBook
2011 Zebra Press
ADAPT OR FLY revue
2012 Durban/SA tour/Johannesburg/Baxter/Perron: PDU
2013 SA tour/Grahamstown/Windhoek/Johannesburg/Perron: PDU
2014 Cape Town/Perron: PDU
2016 SA tour/Cape Town/Perron: PDU
2017 SA tour/Pretoria/Perron: PDU
2018 SA tour/Perron: PDU
2019 Perron: PDU
2020 Penny Lane Studios (Cape Town) livestream: PDU
PIETER-
2012 Franschhoek Literary Festival: PDU as Bambi Kellermann, with Godfrey Johnson, music director
AN AUDIENCE WITH PIETER-
2012 Grahamstown Festival/Baxter/Perron: PDU
2013 SA tour/Johannesburg/Grahamstown/Perron: PDU
2014 Johannesburg/East London/Soho Theatre, London/Perron: PDU
2015 Cape Town/Johannesburg/Perron: PDU
2017 SA tour/Perron: PDU
2018 Perron: PDU
2019 Perron: PDU
2020 Perron: PDU
2022 Perron: PDU
2023 SA tour/Perron: PDU
EVITA’S BOSSIE SIKELELA cookbook/eBook
EVITA SE BOSSIE SIKELELA kookboek/eBook
2012 Umuzi
THE MERRY WIVES OF ZUMA play
2012 Work in progress WITS/Johannesburg – dir: PDU
50 SHADES OF BAMBI cabaret
2013 Cape Town: PDU as Bambi Kellermann with Godfrey Johnson, musical director
2014 Johannesburg: PDU as Bambi Kellermann with Godfrey Johnson, musical director
PANORAMA novel/eBook
2013 Missing Ink
AND THEN THERE WAS MADIBA revue
2013 Perron: PDU
2014 Franschhoek/Baxter/Perron: PDU
2015 Perron: PDU
2016 Perron: PDU
2017 Perron: PDU
EVITA & CO revue
2014 Johannesburg: PDU
STUKKE TEATER play collection
2015 Human & Rousseau: Selle ou Storie, Karnaval, Die Van Aardes Van Grootoor, Panorama, Die Vleiroos
AFRICAN TIMES play
2015 Grahamstown Festival: Peggy Mongoato, Zoliswa Kawe, Ntombi Makhutshi, Sue Pyler, Stefan Hurter – dir: PDU
A PART HATE A PART LOVE revue
2015 Grahamstown Festival: PDU
NEVER TOO NAKED cabaret
2015 Grahamstown Festival: PDU as Bambi Kellermann, with Godfrey Johnson, music director
THE ECHO OF A NOISE memoir
2015 Grahamstown Festival: PDU
2016 Cape Town/Grahamstown/Pietermaritzburg/East London/Perron: PDU
2017 SA tour/Johannesburg/Berlin/Cape Town/Durban/Pretoria/Perron: PDU
2018 SA tour/Perron/Soho Theatre, London: PDU
2019 SA tour/Perron: PDU
2022 SA tour/Perron: PDU
2023 Perron: PDU
DIE VAN AARDES VAN GROOTOOR: THE MUSICAL musical
2015 Cape Town: Natasha van der Merwe, Tankiso Mamabolo, Clarissa Roodt, Caely-
NOBODY’S DIED LAUGHING film
2016 dir: Willem Oelofsen
AN EVENING WITH EVITA BEZUIDENHOUT monologue
2016 SA tour/Cape Town: PDU
2017 SA tour/Port Elizabeth/Pietermaritzberg/Pretoria: PDU
2019 SA tour: PDU
EVITA BEZUIDENHOUT & THE KAKTUS OF SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT monologue
2017 SA tour/Johannesburg/Cape Town/Durban: PDU
WEERKLINK VAN ‘N WANKLANK gedenkskrif
2017 SA tour: PDU
2018 Amsterdam/SA tour: PDU
2019 SA tour: PDU
WHEN IN DOUBT SAY DARLING revue
2018 SA tour/Johannesburg/Cape Town/Pretoria/Pietermaritzberg/Durban/Perron: PDU
2019 SA tour/Perron/Soho theatre, London: PDU
2020 Penny Lane Studios (Cape Town) livestream: PDU
THE ECHO OF A NOISE memoir/eBook
WEERKLINK VAN ‘N WANKLANK gedenkskrif/eBook
2018 Tafelberg
BAMBI SINGS THE F.A.K. SONGS & OTHER STRUGGLE ANTHEMS cabaret
2019 SA tour: PDU as Bambi Kellermann, with Godfrey Johnson, music director
NEVER TOO NAKED monologue
2019 SA tour/Perron: PDU
2020 Woordfees Stellenbosch: PDU
#HETWO: EVITA EXPOSED! revue
2019 Johannesburg/Cape Town/Pietermaritzberg/Durban/Perron: PDU
2020 Penny Lane Studios (Cape Town) livestream: PDU
LOCKUP/LOCKDOWN
2021 Cape Town/Perron: PDU
2022 SA tour/Perron: PDU
ONE MAN SHOWS anthology/eBook
2021 Missing Ink: ONE MAN SHOWS: the black and white years
EVITA IN EXCELSIOR
2023 kykNET 4-
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