(Pic: The inimitable Pieter-Dirk Uys))
Pieter Dirk Uys And Anant Singh collaborate to release Uys’s latest stage hit.
Master satirist and stage personality, Pieter-Dirk Uys and acclaimed film producer, Anant Singh have teamed up to release Uys’s latest stage hit, Elections & Erections on DVD and television, with Singh’s company, Videovision Entertainment having shot the show.
Elections & Erections which began its national tour in Durban on February 17, 2009, will end its run in Cape Town on May 2 and the DVD has been released by Next Video and is available from all leading retail outlets countrywide, while the television broadcast date will be announced soon. Elections & Erections takes audiences on a personal journey with Uys and his alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, through the minefield of fear and fun on the eve of South Africa’s most crucial general election.
Elections & Erections sees Pieter-Dirk Uys celebrate 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. Uys also presents a host of familiar and upcoming politicians and opinion-makers, from the Clintons and Obamas in the United States to Archbishop Tutu and Nelson Mandela to old Nats, re-invented Communists and designer Democrats.
Uys had invited Singh to be a guest ‘star’ on one of his shows in Durban and while watching the show, Singh saw the potential in the DVD market as the content deals with current topics affecting all South Africans, especially the upcoming general elections. Singh presented the idea to Uys who immediately agreed to an elaborate multi-camera shoot with acclaimed director, Junaid Ahmed (More Than Just A Game) directing the shoot at the Sneddon Theatre.
“We are delighted to have struck a deal with Pieter to shoot and distribute Elections & Erections on DVD and television. Having been a part of the show and having seen it, we think that it is a very important work, especially as a lead up to the elections. It gives South African audiences an opportunity to see the lighter side of our past and the forthcoming elections. Elections & Erections is certainly food for thought and will act as a call to action for people to cast their votes in the election.”
Pieter-Dirk Uys commented, “When Anant mentioned the idea of recording the show for a DVD release, I was really excited and I am pleased to have concluded the DVD rights deal with Anant and Videovision Entertainment. I believe that all South Africans would enjoy Elections & Erections and the DVD release will ensure that the show is accessible to a lot more people.”
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