Pieter-Dirk Uys - Revision history

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Books and Autobiographies

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	''Between the Devil and the Deep: A Memoir of Acting and Reacting'' (2005) Cape Town: [[Zebra Press]].		''Between the Devil and the Deep: A Memoir of Acting and Reacting'' (2005) Cape Town: [[Zebra Press]].
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		+	''The Echo of a Noise. A Memoir of Then and Now'' (2018) Cape Town: [[Tafelberg]] Publishers

	== Awards and honours ==		== Awards and honours ==

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 ''Funigalore: Evita's Real-Life Adventures in Wonderland'' (1995) The [[Penguin]] Group (SA) Pty Ltd
-''The Essential Evita Bezuidenhout'' (1997) David Philip Publishers, Cape Town
+''The Essential Evita Bezuidenhout'' (1997) [[David Philip Publishers]], Cape Town
-''A Part Hate a Part Love: The Legend of Evita Bezuidenhout'' (1994) Hond, Groenkloof
+''A Part Hate a Part Love: The Legend of Evita Bezuidenhout'' (1994) [[Hond]], Groenkloof
 ''No space on Long Street ; Marshrose : two plays'' (2000) [[ComPress]], Cape Town

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 '''Pieter-Dirk Uys''' (1945-)  is a South African actor, director, dramatist, impersonator, comedian, political satirist and author.
-Also found as [[Pieter Uys]] in early programmes.
+Also found as '''[[Pieter Uys]]''' in early programmes.
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 === Plays and Monologues written by Uys ===
 '''''[[Faces in the Wall]]''''' (London Film School, 1969; [[Space Theatre]], 1973; [[Market Theatre]] 1980)
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 ==== As actor ====
 : ''[[Tant Ralie se Losieshuis]]'' (feature film) as the estate agent
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 == Books and Autobiographies ==
-''Farce about Uys : A Legal Assembly in Two Riotous Acts'' (1983) Jonathan Ball and Ad. Donker Publishers
+''Saga of'' ''[[Selle Ou Storie|Die Selle Ou Storie]]'' (1978) ''[[Speak]]'', 1(2):53-57.March-April.
-''Selle ou storie: A play'' (1983) Ad. Donker, Johannesburg
+''Selle ou storie: A play'' (1983) [[Ad. Donker]], Johannesburg
-''No-one’s Died Laughing'' (1986) Harmondsworth: Penguin
+''No-one’s Died Laughing'' (1986) Harmondsworth: [[Penguin Books]]
-''Paradise Is Closing Down and Other Plays'' (1989) Penguin Books Ltd
+''Paradise Is Closing Down and Other Plays'' (1989) [[Penguin Books]] Ltd
-''Funigalore: Evita's Real-Life Adventures in Wonderland'' (1995) The Penguin Group (SA) Pty Ltd
+''Funigalore: Evita's Real-Life Adventures in Wonderland'' (1995) The [[Penguin]] Group (SA) Pty Ltd
 ''The Essential Evita Bezuidenhout'' (1997) David Philip Publishers, Cape Town
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 ''A Part Hate a Part Love: The Legend of Evita Bezuidenhout'' (1994) Hond, Groenkloof
-''No space on Long Street ; Marshrose : two plays'' (2000) ComPress, Cape Town
+''No space on Long Street ; Marshrose : two plays'' (2000) [[ComPress]], Cape Town
-''Trekking to Teema'' (2001) Compress, Cape Town
+''Trekking to Teema'' (2001) [[Compress]], Cape Town
-''Elections & Erections: A Memoir of Fear and Fun'' (2003) Zebra Press, Cape Town
+''Elections & Erections: A Memoir of Fear and Fun'' (2003) [[Zebra Press]], Cape Town
-''Between the Devil and the Deep: A Memoir of Acting and Reacting'' (2005) Cape Town: Zebra.
+''Between the Devil and the Deep: A Memoir of Acting and Reacting'' (2005) Cape Town: [[Zebra Press]].
 == Awards and honours ==
 : Doctor honoris causa from [[Rhodes University]]

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 == Sources ==
-[[Beeld]] Kalender, 6 September 1995
+''[[Beeld]]'' ''Kalender'', 6 September 1995
 [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]'s homepage [http://pdu.co.za/index.html]

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 [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]'s homepage [http://pdu.co.za/index.html]
-Evita se Perron website [http://www.evita.co.za/]
+[[Evita se Perron]] website [http://www.evita.co.za/]
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Dirk_Uys

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 Evita se Perron website [http://www.evita.co.za/]
-''Wikipedia'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Dirk_Uys]
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Dirk_Uys
-[[Afrikaans]] ''[[Wikipedia]]'' [https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Dirk_Uys]
+https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Dirk_Uys
 [[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997.

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 [[Beeld]] Kalender, 6 September 1995
-Pieter-Dirk Uys's homepage [http://pdu.co.za/index.html]
+[[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]'s homepage [http://pdu.co.za/index.html]
 Evita se Perron website [http://www.evita.co.za/]
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 ''Wikipedia'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Dirk_Uys]
-Afrikaans ''Wikipedia'' [https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Dirk_Uys]
+[[Afrikaans]] ''[[Wikipedia]]'' [https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Dirk_Uys]
 [[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997.
-[[LitNet]] [http://www.litnet.co.za/] (re Hertzogprys 2018).
+[[LitNet]] [http://www.litnet.co.za/] (re [[Hertzogprys]] 2018).
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	== Sources ==		== Sources ==
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		+	[[Beeld]] Kalender, 6 September 1995
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	Pieter-Dirk Uys's homepage [http://pdu.co.za/index.html]		Pieter-Dirk Uys's homepage [http://pdu.co.za/index.html]

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 '''''[[Selle Ou Storie]]''''' ([[Space Theatre]], 1974; [[The Company]], 1975; [[Johannesburg Civic Theatre]], 2004)
-'''''[[God's Forgotten]]''''' ([[Space Theatre]], 1975; [[Market Theatre]] 1976)
+'''''[[God's Forgotten]]''''' ([[Space Theatre]], 1975; [[Market Theatre]] 1976), [[Johannesburg Civic Theatre]] (1995)
-'''''[[Karnaval]]''''' ([[Space Theatre]], 1975; [[Market Theatre]] 1981)
+'''''[[Karnaval]]''''' ([[Space Theatre]], 1975; [[Market Theatre]] 1981), [[Johannesburg Civic Theatre]](1995)
 '''''[[Skote!]]''''' (Jan van Riebeeck High School, Cape Town, 1976)
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 '''''[[The Rise and Fall of the First Empress Bonaparte]]''''' ([[UCT]] students, 1977; [[PACT]], 1983)
-'''''[[Paradise is Closing Down]]''''' ([[Grahamstown Festival]], 1977; [[Market Theatre]] 1977)
+'''''[[Paradise is Closing Down]]''''' ([[Grahamstown Festival]], 1977; [[Market Theatre]] 1977), [[Johannesburg Civic Theatre]] (1995)
 '''''[[Die Van Aardes van Grootoor]]''''' ([[Baxter Theatre]] 1977; [[Market Theatre]] 1978)

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-'''Pieter-Dirk Uys''' (1945-)  is a South African actor, director, dramatist, impersonator, comedian, political satirist and author. His personal website describes him as "author, actor and activist". [http://pdu.co.za/]
+'''Pieter-Dirk Uys''' (1945-)  is a South African actor, director, dramatist, impersonator, comedian, political satirist and author.
 == Biography ==
-=== Training ===
+He was born in Cape Town on 28 September 1945 and grew up there. He matriculated from Nassau High School in Mowbray, Cape Town after which he completed a BA degree at the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department]]. His university lecturers included [[Rosalie van der Gucht]], [[Mavis Taylor]] and [[Robert Mohr]]. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he studied at the London Film School [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Film_School].
-=== Career ===
+He began working as a freelance playwright, actor and stage director in Cape Town in the 1970s. His early plays, like ''[[Popcorn]]'' (1973), ''[[Selle Ou Storie]]'' (1974), ''[[Pity About People]]'' (1974), ''[[God's Forgotten]]'' (1975) and ''[[Karnaval]]'' (1975) all premiered at the [[Space Theatre]] in Cape Town. Over the years he continued writing, directing and often acting in his own material all over South Africa and abroad. While at film school in London he played a role in drag for the first time, as a milkmaid in an advertising film he produced as a student project and he later became particularly well-known in South Africa for the character [[Evita Bezuidenhout]] (also known as Tannie Evita), a white [[Afrikaner]] socialite and political activist, which he created and plays himself on stage, television and film. He later settled in Darling, in the Western Cape, where he converted the old, disused, railway station into a cabaret venue called [[Evita se Perron]] ("perron" is [[Afrikaans]] for "station platform") [http://www.evita.co.za/], where he stages productions and performs himself regularly.
 == Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance ==