Joke Devynck, De Keizerin, the Whore and the Daughter of the mussel seller

After ten years of absence, Joke Devynck returns to the theater! And she does so with fire because this history is a story that she must tell. Three fascinating women from the Belgian royal family 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 end in a nightmare and then lives for sixty years in self-chosen madness. 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 the Belgische Monarchie at her sharpest: no Disney fairy tales, but three women who made difficult choices… and paid the price for them. Acting | Joke Devynck Regie | Eva Cools Script | Paul De Geyter and Jef Hoogmartens