Echoes of Charlie by Emilio

2 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, Manège, scène nationale - Reims

Echoes of Charlie by Emilio is a one-person show where the drag king Charlie by Emilio moves from cabaret to music and dance in a search for self. With long brown hair and a face white-painted with a finely drawn mustache, Charlie by Emilio, stage name of Émilie Verheul, appears on stage as an elegant androgynous dandy. On a minimalist set, the artist embodies a self-searching character, oscillating between laughter, doubts, and questions. Layer by layer, he explores his relationship to family, to love, to loneliness, voicing fragments of his life aloud. Energized by this journey, this identi…