Le Gateau Chocolat
Moema Parrott
Tabitha McGrath
Amy Gold
Le Gateau Chocolat’s work traverses genre and format. He’s trodden Bark of Millions with Taylor Mac at Sydney Opera House, performances at Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall, Barbican with Basement Jaxx and Metropole Orkest, Glyndebourne, The Globe Theatre, Edinburgh Festivals and Bayreuth. He performs the likes of Wagner to Whitney Houston, Purcell to Radiohead and continues to subvert what it means to be a true icon in the post-genre era.
The six-and-half foot tall, six-inch heeled, wig-clad wonder swings wildly from one end of the musical spectrum to another, from disco, opera, musicals and pop. His recent production ICONS has toured to Sydney Festival, Wales Millennium Centre, Soho Theatre, Underbelly Southbank and elsewhere. ICONS has also been presented with accompaniment from the Little Coco Orchestra, a Le Gateau Chocolat initiative to support diverse musicians through the creation of an ensemble formed entirely of women of colour.
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In theatre includes at the National in Rufus Norris’ production of The Threepenny Opera, Feste in Emma Rice’s final visionary production of Twelfth Night at The Globe (2017), Effigies of Wickedness – Songs banned by the Nazis (2018), a co-production between the Gate Theatre and English National Opera and Daddy Brubeck in the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Sweet Charity (2019) alongside Beverly Knight and Clive Rowe. He further appeared as part of Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The First Act at London’s Barbican Theatre (2019), and as a featured cast member of two-time Olivier Award winning cabaret and circus, La Clique and La Soirée.
Le Gateau Chocolat has presented many solo shows including In Drag (Royal Festival Hall commission), accompanied by small orchestra, is an exploration of the effects of living in drag through music by artists ranging from Wagner to Nick Cave presented with trademark wit and candour, and BLACK (Homotopia commission), an intimate and confessional portrait featuring repertoire from Purcell to Nina Simone and Whitney Houston, as well as at a Christmas Gaiety with conductor Edwin Outwater.
In opera, he has worked with many contemporary composers, specifically Julian Philips (Varjak Paw at Royal Opera House), Jonathan Dove (Tobias and The Angel at the Young Vic), Jocelyn Pook (Ingerland at Royal Opera House and Anxiety Fanfare at Hull City of Culture 2017 and Royal Festival Hall) and Orlando Gough (Imago at Glyndebourne Festival Opera), and his headline-attracting performance as part of Tobias Kratzer’s acclaimed production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the 2019 Bayreuth Festival.
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