Joke Devynck plays 'De Keizerin, the Whore and the Daughter of the Mussel Farmer'

After ten years of absence, Joke Devynck returns to the theater! And she does so with fire, because De Keizerin, the Whore and the Daughter of the Mussel Farmer is a story she must tell. Three fascinating women from the Belgian royal house are central. Three women who once dominated the newspapers and whose lives still sound surprisingly current today. Charlotte van Belgi, Empress of Mexico, sees her dream turn into a nightmare and then lives for sixty years in self-chosen madness. But perhaps happier than ever before… Blanche Delacroix, sixteen and a whore, conquers the heart of the 65-year-old Leopold II and marries him. Wealth follows, but also betrayal and misfortune. Lilian Baels, daughter of a ‘mussel farmer’, marries Leopold III during the Second World War and thus becomes the woman who brings him down. De Keizerin, the Whore and the Daughter of the Mussel Farmer is Belgische Monarchie at her sharpest: no Disney fairy tales, but three women who made difficult choices… and paid the price for them. It is a performance in which text, image, and music merge into a unique experience that brings three intriguing stories from Belgian history to life. Joke Devynck is the Empress, the Whore, and the Daughter of the Mussel Farmer in these stories. Scenario: Joke Devynck, Paul De Geyter & Jef Hoogmartens Regie: Eva Cools Spel: Joke Devynck Foto: Lalo and Eva