Pieter-Dirk Uys

Legendary South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys and his alter-ego Evita Bezuidenhout return to Soho Theatre with a brand-new show.

For the first time, Pieter and Evita will grace the stage together with their trademark irreverence and unique insights.
Performing characters alongside incredible clips from a vast archive of footage dating back to the late 1970s, Uys finds moments of Pythonesque madness where Mrs Bezuidenhout dances with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, flirts with Nelson Mandela, is flattered by Cyril Ramaphosa, not to forget the time she cavorted with apartheid’s Foreign Minister Pik Botha and then-Ambassador to the USA, Dr Piet Koornhof.

Uys gives an intriguing glimpse of how South Africa’s democracy was born in 1994 with so much celebration, hope and humour. Now in the 26th year of ANC governance, apartheid might never return under the same name, but corruption, racism and hate speech are finding ways to reinvent themselves. Viva South Africa’s democracy! (Ts and Cs apply).