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.

Hierdie bundel bevat vyf van Pieter-Dirk Uys se Afrikaanse dramas wat by verskyning aandag getrek het oor Uys se se satiriese uitbeelding van en kritiek op die apartheid-stelsel, nl. Selle ou storie, Karnaval, Die Van Aardes van Grootoor, Panorama en die Die vleiroos. Die selle ou storie en Karnaval is destyds deur die Publikasieraad verbied.

Met meer as 7 000 verhoogoptredes op sy kapstok is Pieter-Dirk Uys volksbesit. In Weerklink van ’n wanklank, sy skreeusnaakse, roerende memoires, tree die mens agter die ikoon te voorskyn.

Ons leer ken sy moeilike, musikaal-gedrewe pa, sy briljante, geheimsinnige ma, sy suster, die pianis-wonderkind, en Sannie Abader, “Pietertjie” se Kaapse Vlakte-ma.

Dan is daar sy Paarlse ouma wat hom neem om by die Verwoerds te gaan kuier, sy ander Oma en haar onverbeterlike strudel, sy vriendskap met Sophia Loren, die geboorte van Evita Bezuidenhout, en die vreugdes en hartseer van ’n merkwaardige lewe.

In this 'Memoir of Acting and Reacting', Pieter-Dirk Uys focuses on his life as a playwright and performer, against the background of a changing South Africa. This is the story of his life in the threatre -- and the theatre in his life. It takes you on a journey, from his early years as a stage manager at the Space Theatre, to the satires of apartheid that made him a household name, to his more recent productions, covering events both on and off the stage. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant, this book will appeal to fans of Pieter-Dirk Uys more than any other book he has written.