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The echo of a noise : a memoir of then and now by Pieter-Dirk Uys
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PN 2988 .U89 A32 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Uys, Pieter-Dirk, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Uys, Pieter-Dirk.
- Male actors--South Africa--Biography.
- Male actors.
- Female impersonators--South Africa--Biography.
- Female impersonators.
- Comedians--South Africa--Biography.
- Comedians.
- South Africa.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town : Tafelberg, 2018.
- Summary:
- This is Pieter-Dirk Uys unpowdered. No props, no false eyelashes, no high heels ... '. South African icon Pieter-Dirk Uys has been on stage over 7 000 times. In this funny and tender memoir, Uys reveals the person behind the persona. We meet his forbidding, musically driven Afrikaner father, his brilliant but troubled mother, and Sannie Abader, his Cape Flats ma who raised him in Pinelands, Cape Town. Filled with photographs from the family album and 40 years of satire, The Echo of a Noise also features Pieter's Paarlse ouma, his strudel-baking German Oma, his devotion to Sophia Loren, the invention of Evita Bezuidenhout, and the joys and sorrows of a remarkable life.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- ISBN:
- 9780624086918
- 0624086917
- OCLC:
- 1078149465
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