Uys' Satire Evita for President! Begins in London July 30

Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys returns to the Tricycle Theatre with the European Premiere of his new show, Evita for President!, running from 30 July to 1 September with press night on August 1, Evita for President!, which is currently playing to capacity audiences at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, professes to be a onslaught against the 'mock' in democracy and the 'con' in reconciliation.

"Evita Bezuidenhout - the fictitious Ambassador to the Homeland of Bapetikosweti - has been part of the local South African political spectrum for the last 30 years. In 1985 she was already a household name in South Africa. FW de Klerk was just a Cabinet Minister. Nelson Mandela was a faceless prisoner. Thabo Mbeki was an unknown exile. Desmond Tutu was arch non grata. And as for the others? Who'd ever heard of them other than as 'terrorists' and'communists'?," as the show is described in press materials.

Pieter-Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1945 and has been involved in the theatre since the mid-1960s. Closely associated with both the Space Theatre in Cape Town and Johannesburg 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. His plays Paradise is Closing Down, Panorama, God's Forgotten, Faces in the Wall and Just like Home have been performed internationally, and his one-man shows Adapt or Dye, One Man One Volt, You ANC Nothing Yet, Truth Omissions, Live from Boerassic Park, Dekaffirnated and Foreign Aids have been presented in the UK, Denmark, Germany, Holland, USA and Canada. His book Between the Devil and the Deep – a memoir about acting and reacting – was published in 2005 to coincide with his 60th birthday (and Mrs Bezuidenhout's 70th).

Visit www.evita.co.za and www.pdu.co.za.

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