Uys, Pieter-Dirk

Pieter-Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945 and has been in the theatre since the mid-1960s. Closely associated with both the Space Theatre in Cape Town and Johannesburg's Market Theatre during the 1970s and 1980s, he has written and performed 20 plays and over 30 revues and one-man shows throughout South Africa and abroad. He created the character and person of Evita Bezuidenhout firstly in a Sunday newspaper column, and later in his one-man revues as a way of circumventing political censorship. She became the most famous white woman in South Africa. Uys is the author of, among others, Elec...