As promised, the master satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys returns to the Zero Arrow with his long-awaited Elections and Erections, postponed from the 2006-07 season.
After the phenomenal success of Foreign AIDS in the A.R.T.’s 2005 South African Festival, we invite you to spend a second evening in the company of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Mrs. Evita Bezuidenhout (“the most famous white woman in South Africa”) and of course their alter ego, Pieter-Dirk Uys and his latest, most outrageous attack on political outrage, which underlines the “mock” in democracy and exposes the “con” in reconciliation.
“Fighting fear and political madness with humor has been my way of life since the 1970s. I always said that the previous government wrote my material for me. That’s why I didn’t pay taxes; I paid royalties.”—Pieter-Dirk Uys
