Foreign Aids
From: Friday, 29th June 2001
To: Friday, 10 August 2001
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Synopsis
South African comedian and satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys with a new show about the trials and tribulations of sex which, due to the AIDS crisis, has replaced apartheid as South Africa's living nightmare.
Our Review:
4 July 2001
Pieter-Dirk Uys's latest satirical sideswipe at the absurdities of his South African homeland (and some of the absurdities of ours, such as the fact that the ex-Railtrack boss here made more from the railways than Ronnie Biggs did, he quips) moves from the political to the sexual arena.
Living, as he does, in a country where HIV is now threatening to succeed where his previous target, apartheid, ultimately failed to marginalise and eradicate the black population, his one-man mission to spread the word about the spreading of the disease is as urgent as it is personal.
It's a job that his government is certainly failing to do. So Uys - through the character of Evita Bezuidenhout (a South African Dame Edna and the self-proclaimed most famous white woman in the country) - has personally gone into some 160 schools, free of charge, to talk about condoms and safe sex.
Evita makes a customary appearance in the one-man, many-character work he has brought to t...
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