Starring Pieter-Dirk Uys as Bambi Kellermann
The Fugard Theatre
6-24 August 2013
Pieter-Dirk Uys stars as Bambi Kellermann in a new cabaret entitled 50 Shades of Bambi, at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, from 6 to 24 August 2013.
Bambi Kellermann is Evita Bezuidenhout`s younger sister. She is the chalk to Tannie`s cheese. Stripper, sex worker and grande horizontal who graduated from the University of Sex Cum Laude. A Fleur du Cap Winner (2010) for Best Performance in a Cabaret, Bambi is back at the Fugard Theatre in August in the world premiere of her new fabulous onslaught against the prudish, the improper and the pathetic. The book ``50 Shades of Grey`` was focused on one specific colour of behaviour. Bambi`s cabaret includes a rainbow selection of other choices. It is also her journey from teenage confusions, through youthful experimentation, into middle-aged compromise to her twilight-year common sense about life, love, laughter and lies. It`s not just about sex,it`s about enjoying what comes naturally. And if it`s not natural, be careful.
With Musical Director Godfrey Johnson at the piano, Bambi takes a raunchy ride to the other side of daily life: relationships, trust, happiness, hope, love and fidelity. Sex is the full-frontal focus, with words, music, toys and tinsel. Recommended to anyone who believes in freedom of expression and the right to choose what is best for them when the lights are low-all presented with the wisdom of experience, humour of recall and songs that remind and remain.
With Women's Day on 9 August, this show is appropriately timed, with a strong focus on the Fairer Sex, and sees Bambi on a new exciting road – her long walk in high-heels to the freedom of expression – in bed, in conversation and in song.
50 Shades of Bambi is at the Fugard Theatre for a limited season from 6 to 24 August 2013, with performances Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8pm, and on Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm and 9pm. Tickets cost R150 through Computicket or 0861915000 or via the Fugard box office on 0214614554. Special discounts are available for the Friends of the Fugard.
"Uys dons eyelashes and presidents listen" – LA TIMES
Pieter-Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. Having survived the mediocrity of apartheid kultuur, it is his therapy and his joy to expose the bones of that dinosaur for the entertainment of democratic audiences worldwide. He is delighted to still have a government that on a daily basis writes his best material. Uys has been in the theatre since the mid-1960s. Closely associated with both the Space Theatre in Cape Town and Johannesburg's Market Theatre during the 1970s and 1980s, he has written and performed 20 plays and over 30 revues and one-man shows throughout South Africa and abroad. His performance of 'Foreign Aids' at La Mama received the Obie Award in New York in 2004. Uys was awarded South Africa's prestigious Truth and Reconciliation Award in 2001. He has received honorary degrees from Rhodes University (D.Litt.Hon. 1997), the University of Cape Town (D.Litt.Hon. 2003), the University of the Western Cape (D.Edu.Hon. 2003) and the University of the Witwatersrand (D.Litt.Hon. 2004). As well, Pieter-Dirk Uys' celebrated alter-ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, proudly received the Living Legacy 2000 Award in San Diego, USA. In 2011 Uys was honoured with a lifetime achievement Teddy award at the Berlin International Film Festival, and in 2012 he received the FW de Klerk Goodwill Award. Since 2000 Pieter-Dirk Uys has been travelling around South Africa, visiting schools, prisons and reformatories with a free AIDS-awareness entertainment called 'For Facts Sake!'
Bambi Kellermann has written her story, assisted by Pieter-Dirk Uys, in a fictional autobiography entitled Never Too Naked. It is a gloves-off, bra-down memoir of a sexual existence well-lived. Bambi, also known as the Grande Horizontal from Bethlehem, knew Mimi, Dietrich, Ava Gardner, JFK, Marilyn, Picasso, Hemingway, Sondheim, presidents, madams, tarts and fools – and she has lived to tell her tale.
