Cast announced for Chat Noir! immersive London dining experience from The Lost Estate

Award-winning immersive entertainment and dining company The Lost Estate has announced casting for its new show Chat Noir!

Chat Noir! is billed as “absinthe, anarchy and haute cuisine” and promises to be Lost Estate’s most ambitious immersive spectacle yet.

Set in Montmartre, Paris in 1896, Chat Noir! opens at Lost Estate’s West Kensington venue on 24 March 2026.

The cast brings together the worlds of cabaret, circus and physical theatre, and stars:

“Dandy King of Cabaret” Joe Morose as the real-life proprietor of Paris’s Le Chat Noir, Rodolphe Salis
Scottish multi-disciplinary performer Neil Kelso as French illusionist Buatier De Kolta
Burlesque artist Coco Belle as Belle Époque dancer Cléo de Mérode
Cabaret and physical theatre artist Alexander Luttley (Pi the Mime) as Paul LeGrand, influential French mime artist
Performer Issy Wroe Wright as French cabaret singer and actress Yvette Guilbert
Also stars a wild troupe of bohemian musicians known as Les Enfants Vagabondes, providing the soundtrack to the evening

Video: Meet the cast of Chat Noir!

More about Chat Noir!

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.

Chat Noir! London. Alexander Luttley (Pi the Mime). Photo via the production

Visiting Chat Noir!

The home of Chat Noir! is the Lost Estate’s 30,000 sq ft venue in West London, which has been rebuilt as a 360-degree recreation of the original Le Chat Noir Paris cabaret club, complete with flickering gas lamps and smoke-swirled table lamps. Expect show-stopping theatrics, exotic routines and the anarchic energy that made the original club the talk of Paris.

Every ticket includes a three-course menu of period French haute cuisine. Between courses, guests can sample Belle Époque cocktails at the emerald-lit Bar d’Absinthe.

Chat Noir! begins performances on 24 March 2026, with evening performances Tuesday to Sunday and weekend matinees, and is booking to 19 September 2026.

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Main photo: Chat Noir! London casting announced: Coco Belle, Neil Kelso, Joe Morose, Alexander Luttley, Issy Wroe Wright. Photos provided by production