The cast has been revealed for Chat Noir!, the latest theatrical live experience from The Lost Estate, which will transport visitors to the world of Montmartre 1896.
Chat Noir! invites audiences to step through a secret door into 19th century Paris and the birthplace of cabaret, the legendary Le Chat Noir, the original Parisian nightclub that launched a cultural revolution and gave birth to modern nightlife.
At the centre of the story is Rodolphe Salis (Joe Morose), the real-life proprietor of Le Chat Noir as he prepares his final and most lavish cabaret, a feverish celebration of love and madness.
Neil Kelso appears as the celebrated French illusionist Buatier De Kolta. Burlesque artist Coco Belle is Belle Époque dancer Cléo de Mérode, often referred to as the “first real celebrity icon.” Cabaret and physical theatre artist Alexander Luttley (Pi the Mime) takes to the stage as Paul LeGrand, the influential French mime who transformed the Pierrot created by Jean-Gaspard Deburau into the tearful, sentimental figure familiar to late-19th-century audiences.
Completing the line-up is performer and producer Issy Wroe Wright as French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque, Yvette Guilbert, alongside the wild troupe of bohemian musicians known as Les Enfants Vagabondes providing the soundtrack to the evening with new arrangements of French Late-Romantic masterpieces.
Chat Noir! opens in West Kensington on March 24, 2026. Tickets here.
Top image: Chat Noir! cast announcement (image supplied)