Pieter-Dirk Uys - Evita for President
From: Monday, 30th July 2007
To: Saturday, 1 September 2007
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2 August 2007
Well known and respected in his native South Africa, Pieter-Dirk Uys and his fictional creation Evita Bezuidenhout enjoy a similar place in the national consciousness over there as Dame Edna Everage does here. He pursues a far more political and satirical path than the average cross-dressing comedian, but having been a part of the showbiz light entertainment world since the 1970s seems to have left him - and his material - slightly jaded.
Uys’ latest solo piece, Evita for President, is not drama in the narrative sense of the word, but a series of character sketches, representing different facets of life in South Africa and offering various perspectives on the upcoming presidential leadership race there. These personalities include a Big Issue seller on the streets of Cape Town, an old-guard pre-Apartheid politician strenuously denying any personal wrongdoing whilst paying lip-service to the new democracy, and a puppet version of current leader T...
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