Abstract
Pieter-Dirk Uys, South Africa's premier political satirist, was born in Cape Town in 1945 to an Afrikaner father and a German-Jewish mother. From 1965 to 1972 he studied drama at the University of Cape Town and film at the London Film School. During the 197os he wrote and directed plays at the Space Theatre in Cape Town and at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. Uys (pronounced Ace) is author of over 25 plays and reviews. His play God's Forgotten was performed in 1978 at La Mama in New York City. Other works performed in the U.S. and U.K. include Paradise Is Closing Down (1977) and Beyond the Rubicon (1986), which were also produced for South African television.
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