PIETER-DIRK UYS RETURNS TO THE BAXTER THEATRE
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...