Pieter-Dirk Uys

Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African performer, author, satirist and social activist, born in Cape Town on 28 September 1945, and best known for his character Evita Bezuidenhout, the Afrikaner socialite and former ambassadress of the fictitious homeland Bapetikosweti. He studied at the University of Cape Town and the London Film School, wrote plays staged at the Space Theatre, and turned to one-man revues under Apartheid: Adapt or Dye opened at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg in 1981 and ran for 280 performances. He converted the old railway station at Darling, where he lives, into the cabaret venue Evita se Perron, and received the Special Teddy Award at the Berlinale in 2011 for his AIDS education work in schools. His current show, Evita@91, marks the character at 90.