Echoes of Charlie d’Emilio

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

The drag king Charlie d’Emilio moves from cabaret to music and dance in a one-man show about the quest for self. With long brown hair, a face whitened with makeup and a fine moustache, Charlie d’Emilio, stage name of Émilie Verheul, appears on stage as an elegant androgynous dandy. In a minimalist set, the artist embodies a self-searching character, oscillating between laughter, doubt and questioning. Layer by layer, he explores his relationship to family, to love, to solitude, voicing fragments of his life. Energetic, this identity-seeking performance…