Fifteen cardboard boxes on stage. Each filled with characters and stories. And Pieter-Dirk Uys.
That's all the visual required to make turn his latest show into an evening to be talked about long after the fact. Now in his late sixties, Pieter-Dirk Uys can vividly recall the recent history of South Africa with ease and is probably the most up to date person on current South African politics. He engages his audiences, speaking to the young, the expat, the gay and the gatvol.
"An Audience with Pieter-Dirk EISH" is just that. With the choice of fifteen boxes on stage, a member of the audience chooses a number. Out come characters and entertainment that could be a drama, a comedy, a farce or a shocking expose.
Every box holds a familiar laugh, all truly South African! Uys is on stage sharing a life that reflects the lives of so many of his audience, memorable experiences growing up in South Africa then and now, and doing sketches of various characters and their unique stories, some of them harking back to that dark past; most of them trying to make sense of this crazy future.
Only every night the show and the characters will be different.
That's all the visual required to make turn his latest show into an evening to be talked about long after the fact. Now in his late sixties, Pieter-Dirk Uys can vividly recall the recent history of South Africa with ease and is probably the most up to date person on current South African politics. He engages his audiences, speaking to the young, the expat, the gay and the gatvol.
"An Audience with Pieter-Dirk EISH" is just that. With the choice of fifteen boxes on stage, a member of the audience chooses a number. Out come characters and entertainment that could be a drama, a comedy, a farce or a shocking expose.
Every box holds a familiar laugh, all truly South African! Uys is on stage sharing a life that reflects the lives of so many of his audience, memorable experiences growing up in South Africa then and now, and doing sketches of various characters and their unique stories, some of them harking back to that dark past; most of them trying to make sense of this crazy future.
An Audience with Pieter – Dirk EISH is on at the Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City for two nights only on 28 and 29 March at 8:30pm. Tickets from R120 and are available at Computicket
Pictures taken by Stefan Hurter
Pictures taken by Stefan Hurter
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