Pieter-Dirk Uys

World premiere of Nobody’s Died Laughing – A Journey with Pieter-Dirk Uys at Durban International Film Festival

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Pieter-Dirk Uys photo by Robert A. Hamblin

Pieter-Dirk Uys. Photo: Robert A Hamblin

Nobody’s Died Laughing, a theatrical-action-documentary that celebrates the life and work of performing artist and activist Pieter-Dirk Uys, will have its world premiere at the 37th Durban International Film Festival on Sunday, June 19 at 6pm at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre. Continue reading →

Durban International Film Festival announces programme for 37th edition

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The Journeymen

THE 37th Durban International Film Festival has announced its programme, offering another exciting edition of the continent’s leading showcase of independent African and international film. It will take place at 15 venues across the city and its outlying areas from June 16 to 26. Continue reading →

Pieter-Dirk Uys to perform two shows at the Hilton College Theatre

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LEGENDARY South African satirist, Pieter-Dirk Uys, will be performing two shows at the Hilton College Theatre.
Adapt or Fly is being staged on Friday, August 7 and An Evening With Evita can be seen on Saturday, August 8. Both shows start at 7.30 pm.
Uys started his one-man onslaught against politicians who should know better with Adapt or Dye in 1981. In Adapt or Fly, he onces again holds up the cracked mirror of satire to a 21-year-old democracy and uses humour as his weapon of mass distraction.
After successful seasons in Cape Town and Johannesburg and a run at the Soho Theatre in London, Uys will hit the stage with Julius Malema, Evita Bezuidenhout, a gang of National Party leaders and a cabal of ANC stalwarts in a show that will put a healthy perspective on our fears and worries.
Bezuidenhout will be back on August 8, and theatre-goers are invited to spend some ‘quality time with the most famous white woman in South Africa’.
A legend in her own lunchtime thanks to her cooking, and an icon who can confront any aikona, Bezuidenhout invites us to share with her the optimism and fearlessness that has made her one of the most respected voices in our wilderness of free speech.
“Come and enjoy the blacks, whites, browns, yellows and ‘others’ that make up this unique country of our dreams,” says Uys. “As long as we can laugh at our fear, we are still in charge of our future.”

Tickets are R180 to R195 and bookings open on Monday, June 22. To book go to http://www.hiltontheatre.co.za

Evita Bezuidenhout will be sharing her thoughts on South Africa at the Hilton College Theatre in An Evening with Evita Bezuidenhout.

Evita Bezuidenhout will be sharing her thoughts on South Africa at the Hilton College Theatre in An Evening with Evita Bezuidenhout.

Pieter-Dirk Uys will be performing Adapt for Fly at the Hilton College Theatre.

Pieter-Dirk Uys will be performing Adapt for Fly at the Hilton College Theatre.