Events

*** ANNOUNCING PDU’S LATEST BOOKS *** 
now available free on this website to read or download

ONE MAN SHOWS: In the Shower with Zuma (2010-2020)

ONE MAN SHOWS: The Mbeki HIV Renaissance (2000-2009)

ONE MAN SHOWS: The Mandela Rainbow Honeymoon (1992-1999)

ONE MAN SHOWS: the black and white years (1981-1994)

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THE ECHO OF A NOISE: A Memoir Of Then And Now
and
WEERKLINK VAN ‘N WANKLANK: Memoires Van Toe En Nou

 In this funny and tender memoir, South African icon Pieter-Dirk Uys reveals the person behind the persona. We meet his forbidding, musically driven Afrikaner father, his brilliant but troubled Berlin-born mother, and Sannie Abader, his Cape Flats ma who raised him in Pinelands, Cape Town. Filled with photographs from the family album and Uys’s 40 years in theatre The Echo of a Noise also features Pieter’s Paarlse ouma, his strudel-baking German Oma, his devotion to Sophia Loren, the invention of Evita Bezuidenhout, and the joys and sorrows of a remarkable life.

****  It’s a South African story like no other … a journey that stays in your mind as you ponder your own place on the tip of Africa.
       – Adriaan Roets, The Citizen

Published by Tafelberg and available at fine bookshops throughout South Africa,
as well as at Evita se Perron

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NOBODY’S DIED LAUGHING
A Journey with Pieter-Dirk Uys

Following the award-winning documentary’s theatrical release in 2016,
the DVD is now available at major outlets in South Africa, as well as at Evita se Perron

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AFRICAN TIMES

A white comedy or a black tragedy? Whose side will you find yourself on?

Pieter-Dirk Uys’s latest play, African Times, is now available for sale
at Evita se Perron
and can also be found in this website’s Play Texts section

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STUKKE TEATER
Selle ou Storie • Karnaval • Die van Aardes van Grootoor • Panorama • Die Vleiroos

Hierdie bundel bevat vyf van Pieter-Dirk Uys se Afrikaanse dramas wat by verskyning aandag getrek het oor Uys se se satiriese uitbeelding van en kritiek op die apartheid-stelsel, nl. Selle ou storie, Karnaval, Die Van Aardes van Grootoor, Panorama en die Die vleiroos. Die selle ou storie en Karnaval is destyds deur die Publikasieraad verbied.

“Uys is enig in sy soort, ’n man wat in ’n tyd toe monde gesnoer is, nie bang was om te skryf wat geskryf moes word nie.”
           – Ilza Roggeband, Die Burger

Published by Human & Rousseau and available at fine bookshops throughout South Africa,
as well as at Evita se Perron

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PANORAMA

For twenty-four hours in 1987, Sibi Makhale is allowed to visit her dying father in the maximum security prison of Robben Island.  The daughter of banned parents, Sibi comes face to face with two suspicious and frightened white Afrikaans schoolteachers resident on the island. It will prove to be a life-changing experience for all of them. Over two decades later, Sibi returns to the island – now a World Heritage Site – with her two born-free sons. It is an attempt at closure for her, an adventure for her boys, and for the reader, a remarkable journey back from the dark past. Panorama celebrates the people who, through their shared passion for a beloved country, managed to communicate and even laugh with each other in spite of fear, guilt and prejudice.  This story about South Africa’s yesterday and today is inspired by Pieter-Dirk Uys’s internationally acclaimed play of the same name.

“Past and present collide with explosive results — and a whole lot of unexpected humour.”
              – Jane Vorster, YOU

Published by Missing Ink and available at fine bookshops throughout South Africa,
as well as at Evita se Perron

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NEVER TOO NAKED
A Thrilling Tale of Love, Lust, Loss and Life

Bambi Kellermann (sister and worst nightmare of Evita Bezuidenhout) reveals all
in her gloves-off, bra-down memoir,
written with the assistance of Pieter-Dirk Uys

“The narrative is so real that you have to keep reminding yourself that Bambi is a figment of imagination … but she’s certainly very real in this book.  A fascinating read!”
             – Caroline Smart, Artsmart

Published by Zebra Press and available at fine bookshops throughout South Africa,
as well as at Evita se Perron

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EVITA’S KOSSIE SIKELELA and EVITA SE KOSSIE SIKELELA
 *winner of the 2010 Gourmand World Cookbooks Award for Best Easy Recipes Book *

“This delightful cookbook [is] a unique collection of mainly South African recipes and some others, lovingly presented.”
             – Sophia Loren

EVITA’S BOSSIE SIKELELA and EVITA SE BOSSIE SIKELELA

“With someone full of so many wonderful surprises, I’m sure we can all expect the same from her cookbook.”
             – Charlize Theron

Both cookbooks are published by Umuzi/Random House and are available at fine bookshops throughout South Africa, as well as at Evita se Perron

20% of all sales of Kossie Sikelela and Bossie Sikelela benefit The Darling Trust

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PIETER-DIRK UYS eBOOKS
available for Kindles, iPads and other devices at Amazon, takealot  and other etailers

THE ECHO OF A NOISE: A Memoir Of Then And Now
and
WEERKLINK VAN ‘N WANKLANK: Memoires Van Toe En Nou
South African icon Pieter-Dirk Uys has been on stage over 7000 times. In this funny and tender memoir, filled with photographs from the family album and 40 years of satire, Uys reveals the person behind the persona. We meet his forbidding, musically driven Afrikaner father, his brilliant but troubled Berlin-born mother, and Sannie Abader, his Cape Flats ma who raised him in Pinelands, Cape Town, and learn of his friendship with Sophia Loren, the invention of Evita Bezuidenhout, and the joys and sorrows of a remarkable life.

STUKKE TEATER
Selle ou Storie • Karnaval • Die van Aardes van Grootoor • Panorama • Die Vleiroos
Hierdie bundel bevat vyf van Pieter-Dirk Uys se Afrikaanse dramas wat by verskyning aandag getrek het oor Uys se se satiriese uitbeelding van en kritiek op die apartheid-stelsel.

“”Uys is enig in sy soort, ’n man wat in ’n tyd toe monde gesnoer is, nie bang was om te skryf wat geskryf moes word nie.”
          – Ilza Roggeband, Die Burger

PANORAMA
Robben Island revisited: Pieter-Dirk Uys’s incisive and moving new novel that updates his remarkable early play of the same name, which was first performed in 1987.

“Past and present collide with explosive results — and a whole lot of unexpected humour.”
           – Jane Vorster, YOU   

A PART HATE A PART LOVE — The Legend of Evita Bezuidenhout
When the history of apartheid is ever written, the wife of the National Party MP for Laagerfontein will have her own chapter.  
Here is her story, the truth and the spin, the sublime and the ridiculous.
The story of a woman. The story of a nation. The story of our lives.

 “Pieter-Dirk Uys helped us keep our sanity. Poking fun at the absurdities of our way of life, he undermined apartheid and was a hilarious part of our glorious liberation struggle. He pricked our various bubbles and here we are today. A Part Hate A Part Love is vintage acerbic Uys. Thank God He made Uys get us to laugh at ourselves.”
            – Archbishop Desmond Tutu

NEVER TOO NAKED — A Thrilling Tale of Love, Lust, Loss and Life
Bambi Kellermann (sister and worst nightmare of Evita Bezuidenhout) reveals all in her gloves-off, bra-down memoir, written with the assistance of Pieter-Dirk Uys.
Her story features, among others, Marlene Dietrich, Ava Gardner, The Beatles, John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Nelson Mandela and Evita  Bezuidenhout as herself.

“The narrative is so real that you have to keep reminding yourself that Bambi is a figment of imagination … but she’s certainly very real in this book.  A fascinating read!”
             – Caroline Smart, Artsmart

BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP: A Memoir of Acting and Reacting
In this funny, witty and poignant memoir, Uys takes us on a journey through his life in the theatre — and the theatre in his life.

“Absorbing, often delicious reminiscences. Uys’s career is one of the most engaging stories of the recent South African past.”
             – Derek Wilson, Cape Argus

ELECTIONS & ERECTIONS: A Memoir of Fear and Fun
This is a book about journeys, both geographical and personal, a document of Pieter-Dirk Uys’s love affair with South Africa and its people. Frank and controversial, hilarious and humane, Elections & Erections expresses his passion and anger towards present circumstances and his hope and optimism for the future.

“Scathingly brilliant, disarmingly self-revealing, refreshingly honest and deliciously un-PC!”
             – Caroline Smart, Artsmart

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THE MERRY WIVES OF ZUMA
a play about lies, love, lust and the longing for a better life
inspired by a Rainbow Nation and William Shakespeare’s play
The Merry Wives of Windsor

“Artistic endeavours of this kind can make a valuable contribution to a nation’s sociopolitical discourse. At the core of this farce is a theme similar to the one underlying the Bard’s work: a niggling sense that the affluent political elite is hopelessly out of touch with the working class and the poor, whose interests they claim so grandly to represent. Judging from the robust laughter of recognition the piece elicited, it definitely strikes a chord.”
             – Christina Kennedy, Business Day

The Merry Wives of Zumais available for sale at Evita se Perron
and can also be found in this website’s Play Texts section

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THE PIETER-DIRK UYS DVD COLLECTION

Pieter-Dirk Uys has been commenting on South Africa, its politics and people since 1980.
His collection of work is available on DVD at major outlets in South Africa,
as well as at Evita se Perron

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Adapt or Dye (1982, released on DVD in 2012)
Blast from the Past (1982/1986)
Farce about Uys (1983)
Skating on Thin Uys (1985)
The Great Comedy Trek (1992)
Dekaffirnated  (1999)
Foreign Aids  (2002)
The End is Naai  (2004)
Darling!  The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story  (2006)
Evita for President (2008)
Elections & Erections (2009)
Kyk Net vir Tannie (2015)
Nobody’s Died Laughing: A Journey with Pieter-Dirk Uys (2016)

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HYSTERICAL HISTORICAL HISTORY WITH PIETER-DIRK UYS

Evita se Perron has the most extensive museum/nauseum on apartheid in the world.
Apartheid is now being taught in schools and there are no objective books.
The “born frees” (those born after 1994) cannot understand the madness, the monsters or the facts. Bring them to the Perron and let PDU take them through his version of history, laced with humour, but based on reality and pretty close to the truth.

Phone 083 235 4002 or email  frits@evitaseperron.com

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THE DARLING TRUST NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

Join PDU and Tannie Evita in supporting the work of The Darling Trust.
To learn more, please visit  www.thedarlingtrust.org

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