(Pic: Pieter-Dirk Uys)
Master satirist’s personal journey through the minefield of fun and fear on the eve of SA’s most crucial general election.
Master satirist, Pieter-Dirk Uys, returns to Durban’s Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre from February 17 to 28 as part of a national tour to stage his phenomenal Elections & Erections: a personal journey through the minefield of fear and fun on the eve of South Africa’s most crucial general election.
Pieter-Dirk Uys celebrates the two issues that were illegal for most of his life in South Africa: democracy and sex.
He uses humour, his weapon of mass distraction, and compares today’s freedom of speech to those years of no freedom. And yet then there was enough speech to help end a brutal system and usher in a young democracy. There was also laughter.
The issue of the next President and a new Government is not making South Africans laugh. The tsunamis of recession, economic woes, crime, corruption and denialism merge with the Zunami of Comrade Jacob’s dramatic journey to the most powerful position in the land. Nothing seems to be funny anymore.
It is time to laugh! Pieter-Dirk Uys invites you share that shower with him and his chorus line of politicians and people. Democracy and sex are both freely available in South Africa and each carries the warning of danger. Come and lead the parade with laughter at fear. Turn it into fun and optimism for a future after only 14 years of a remarkable and unique democracy. If the people find the courage to lead in that direction, the government will be just too happy to follow.
Depending on Who’s Who in the Political Zoo, Uys will present a host of familiar and upcoming politicians and opinion-shakers, from the Clintons and Obamas in the USA, a Tutu here and a Mandela there, old Nats, reinvented Communists, designer Democrats, Fat Cats and bloody Fools.
Elections & Erections runs at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre from February 17 to 28 with shows from Tuesday to Saturday at 20h00 and Sunday at 15h00. There will be extra performances on Friday (February 27) and Saturday (February 28) at 17h00. Book at Computicket
”Elections & Erections” goes on to run at the Nelson Mandela Theatre at the Jo-burg Theatre (Civic Theatre) from March 3 to 15 and then at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town from April 7 to May 2.
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