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After a sell out season earlier this year, Pieter-Dirk Uys returns with his acclaimed one man memoir  The Echo of a Noise,  this time   to the Baxter Theatre, from 29 November 2016.  Having performed alone on the stages of the world for well over seven thousand times, Pieter-Dirk Uys has learnt that every show is the first and the last performance – because each audience demands and gets a different energy, topicality and excitement. Now in his 71 st  year, he doesn't glance back at the successes and failures that have strengthened his belief in a constant improvement of his work, but at those small signposts that throughout his life subconsciously have pointed him in a right and original direction – his father Hannes Uys, his mother Helga Bassel, his grandmothers, his teachers, his passions; Sophia Loren, censorship, false eyelashes and making a noise when everyone demanded silence .   South Africa’s foremost satirist sits on a barstool, wearing...

1.        What motivated you to produce this song?   EVITA : My grandchildren told me about Bob Geldorf and how he had a song fashioned to inform people about Ebola. I suuddenly realized that we could also use music to unite us, especially now when we are so divided through suspicions and silence. Then I remembered how impressed I was with Karen Zoid when she invited me on her KYKNET show ZOID-AFRIKA. We spoke – not for that long – and immediately knew what to do. I wrote some words, she encased them with song. When was the song recorded?  EVITA: I filmed my sections in Darling while Karen did the singing part in Cape Town. How long did production take? EVITA : She and Carien Loubser the producer worked so hard – and the wonderful thing is, no public money, state funds, sponsorships or donations were used. We all used our own money to pay for what we  did and all the artists, the studio, the cameras, the edit –...