Mata Hari

A Theatrical Music Performance

With a combination of language, music and dance

the life story of Mata Hari is told

a gripping, touching and amazing life.

Documented, Mata Hari is portrayed

by the legendary theatrical artists

Herman van Veen,

through acting, dancing and singing by

the great Belgium actress and dancer Gaëtane Bouchez,

Martine de Kok from Flanders (Belgium),

the Dutch Wendel Spier

and the German Silke Mehler

Mata Hari.

Was she too beautiful

to be respectable?

A brief overview

During the First World War, hidden in a seam of a red evening dress, the French secret service found a coded military message.

The dress was found in a suitcase which belonged to the legendary Dutch dancer Mata Hari. Because of this evidence, the young woman was sentenced to death.

Anna, Mata Hari’s best friend and confidant, knew that the dress did not belong to the dancer, but to her. She received the garment from Vladimir Maslov, the second cousin of the Russian Emporer, with whom, just like Mata Hari, she had a passionate affair. 

Remorseful and in a moving monologue, she tried to convince the authorities of Mata Hari’s innocence.