Introducing the Artists Bringing Le Chat Noir! To Life at The Lost Estate in March 2026

Joe Morose, Coco Belle, Neil Kelso, Alexander Luttley and Issy Wroe Wright bring 1896 Paris to life in CHAT NOIR! alongside musicians Les Enfants Vagabondes.

The Lost Estate are delighted to introduce the full cast of performers who will conjure the world of Montmartre in 1896 into reality, bringing the world’s first cabaret club to life in the company’s most ambitious project to date – ‘CHAT NOIR!’.

With a calibre of performers that matches the hugely ambitious scale of the production, The Lost Estate have curated a cast, hand-selected from London’s cabaret, circus and physical theatre worlds, selecting exceptional performers at the very top of their game.

Opening on 24th March 2026, 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 stands Rodolphe Salis – the real-life proprietor of Le Chat Noir as he prepares his final and most lavish cabaret; a feverish celebration of love and madness.

The Cast

Salis is brought to life by “Dandy King of Cabaret”, Joe Morose. With over a decade of experience at the centre of London’s cabaret scene, Morose has been described by The Stage as “irrepressible” and by The Guardian as “impishly spiteful”. CHAT NOIR! will mark his third collaboration with The Lost Estate, having previously appeared in 58th Street and Paradise Under the Stars.

Just as Salis summoned the greatest artists of his age to create an ambitious, audacious revue, The Lost Estate’s producers undertook an extensive casting process to assemble a company drawn from the very forefront of the world’s cabaret performers. The team sought artists whose work embodies the spirit of Montmartre – musicians, magicians and movement artists chosen not only for technical excellence, but for their ability to become their characters and to inhabit this nocturnal world fully, where music, theatre, design, food and drink combine to make a single work of art.

Joe is joined by a cast of exceptional cabaret artists, each embodying real-life characters who once graced the famous Montmartre Cabaret stage, and are now brought back to life.

Scottish multi-disciplinary performer and member of The Magic Circle Neil Kelso appears as the celebrated French illusionist Buatier De Kolta.

Classic burlesque artist Coco Belle, whose work channels the glamour and rebellion of bygone eras, appears as Belle Époque dancer Cléo de Mérode, often referred to as the “first real celebrity icon”.

Internationally celebrated 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.

Opening: 24th March 2026 in West Kensington, London

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More about the cast of CHAT NOIR

Joe Morose

Joe Morose is a UK cabaret performer, compere, writer, composer, director and more. Trained at The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, he worked extensively as a professional actor before moving into cabaret performance.

He performs regularly across London’s leading cabaret, burlesque and variety venues, as well as nationally and internationally. He was nominated for Best Compere at the London Cabaret Awards in his first year and has held residencies at Café de Paris and Proud Cabaret. He has performed at venues including The London Hippodrome, The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club and Madame Jojo’s, and has compered private events for clients including Alan Carr, Ant & Dec and FKA Twigs, as well as charities such as CALM, Mind and The British Heart Foundation.

Morose has served as Cabaret Director for venues including Bunga Bunga, Barrio and Circe’s, and created the award-winning production The Silencing of Miss Scarlet, which ran in London and Brighton for two years. His directing credits also include NewsRevue (Canal Café Theatre), FEAST! (Woolwich Works) and the UK tour of Spring Awakening for Stairway Theatre Company.

As an actor, his theatre work includes originating the role of The Cat in the Hat in the UK premiere of Seussical, Ferripoti in NotMoses, and Touchstone in Northern Broadsides’ 30th anniversary production of As You Like It. Television credits include My Parents Are Aliens (ITV), All At Sea (BBC) and Hapless (Amazon Prime).

As a composer, he has worked on RIP at the King’s Head Theatre and scored five pantomimes for Such Stuff Productions. He is currently developing a new musical, Aunt Tittie, based on a short story by Noël Coward.

Neil Kelso

A competition-winning classical concert pianist, a member of the prestigious Magic Circle and of Mensa, and an internationally recognised authority on mystery and magic, having recently been invited to speak at UNESCO in Paris about his multidisciplinary creative practice.

A regular performer at London’s legendary Crazy Coqs Cabaret, Neil is a three-time recipient of Pick of the Edinburgh Fringe and his television work in the UK and USA has garnered over 600 million views worldwide. He originated the role of the Magician in the critically acclaimed These Trees Are Made of Blood (Southwark Playhouse/Arcola Theatre), and his murder mystery plays have been performed in theatres and stately homes as well as aboard the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Train, the British Pullman Train, on Burgh Island, and aboard luxury cruise ships around the world.

As a creative consultant, credits include Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana, Dynamo: Beyond Belief (Sky One), Maddie Moate’s BAFTA-winning Very Curious Christmas, and acclaimed productions by The Barbican, The Old Vic, Belarus Free Theatre, Wise Children, and Sanskruti Dance. He is also a published author and sought-after speaker on the subjects of tarot, esoterica, and the occult, with numerous appearances at international conferences exploring the intersection of magic, history, and performance.

Coco Belle

Coco Belle is a classic burlesque artist, actress, model and producer. Her current residency is at The Lost Estate’s – 58th Street, in Belle Livingstone’s 1930s New York Jazz Club. Prior to this she has performed for Belmond’s – British Pullman, in their luxury immersive train experience, ‘The Carriage Club’. She has performed for London’s premier vintage dance troupe Gin House Burlesque; Germany’s prestigious travelling immersive 1920s show Bohème Sauvage; Parisian Crazy Horse performer Martha Von Krupp; Black Cat Cabaret; and Beguiling Hour to name but a few, and continues to work in some of the most exquisite theatres and cabaret venues all across London, the UK and abroad.

Over the past 2 years, Coco has performed in residencies for Stuttgart’s Friedrichsbau Varieté Theatre and as well as performing, Coco is a burlesque mentor. She teaches students all over the world, and holds regular workshops at Palace Studio in Crystal Palace, London.

Alexander Luttley (Pi the Mime)

Alexander Luttley is a multi disciplinary, queer and non binary artist with a specialism in cabaret, mime and physical performance. A graduate of Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and RESAD Madrid, Luttley’s expertise and training in European forms of performance has resulted in them being a leading voice internationally within the cabaret and theatre industries. As an actor, their work includes RIFT’s Macbeth, The Rodin Project (Sadler’s Wells) and These Trees Are Made of Blood (Southwark Playhouse, Arcola) in which they originated the role of Campos.

As a cabaret performer, Luttley makes regular appearances in the UK under the guise of Pi the Mime or as compere Mercury. As Mercury, they have toured internationally as front person of Party Like Gatsby, performed extensively at prestigious venues Crazy Coqs, the Underbelly and Wintergarten Berlin and hosted shows produced by Black Cat Cabaret, Gin House Burlesque, Baby Grand Collective and The House of Q (which they are a founding member of). As Pi, Luttley was the recipient of the CWTCH Award, European Queen of Burlesque Award, appeared on Britain’s Got Talent and shared the stage with artists including Julian Clarey, Duncan James, Kerry Ellis and Bill Bailey as part of Cabaret All Stars.

Aside from performance, Luttley has worked as a creative on various projects including as cowriter/ composer for Queerstory (Theatre Royal Stratford East, Paines Plough), as writer with The Dot Collective (Oxford Playhouse and around the UK), co creator of Princess Charming (Oval House, UK Tour) and as producer and show director for Amazon, Louboutin and venues across London. They are also a prominent member of the Soho School of Burlesque where they help shape the next generation of cabaret artists.

Issy Wroe Wright

Issy is a performer and producer creating distinctive theatrical work across comedy and live performance.

Projects include Flat and the Curves, an all-female, genre-defying comedy troupe that tours across the UK and has earned critical acclaim, and Sh!t-Faced Showtime, a theatrical improv concept that has become a long-running West End Christmas fixture.

Alongside her own productions, Issy performs regularly as a singer across London, with credits that include the London Palladium, Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.

CHAT NOIR! also boasts Secret Cinema stalwart and The Great Christmas Feast lead David Alwyn, fire and magic specialist Pat Magus, multidisciplinary movement artist Duane Nasis and musical theatre performer and lead vocalist Ruby Olivia Hewitt as alternate performers.

About The Lost Estate

The Lost Estate creates transportive, best-in-class world-building live experiences where music, theatre, design and hospitality become a single work of art. Every world begins with the music: it sets the pulse, shapes the story and carries the audience through each twist of time. Each production invites guests to step through a carefully built portal into another century – from the jazz-soaked speakeasies of 1930s New York to the candlelit parlours of Victorian London to the heady Havana nights of 1950s Cuba – and spend an evening inside a living, breathing story. Founded by classically trained musicians (William Kunhardt, Rowan Bell, Eddy Hackett) and driven by a passion for history and fine dining, The Lost Estate fuses world-class performance from top musicians with exceptional food, drink and top-flight mixology to craft nights that feel like time travel itself. The result is an evening that lingers long after the final note – a rare escape where the music follows you home, still humming in your head as the city returns.