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Rendez-Vous Dance presents

The Monocle

  • Corn Exchange Auditorium
  • Full price £18.25  / 
  • Concessions £16.25  / 
  • Schools £11 (including booking fees)
Six women sat and standing in a group on a dark club stage.

Welcome to The Monocle, where nothing is impossible!

The Monocle is a highly acclaimed, stylish contemporary dance and music production created by award-winning choreographer Mathieu Geffré, founder and Artistic Director of Rendez-Vous Dance. 

This dance production reveals and celebrates the long forgotten pioneering history of Le Monocle, the legendary 1930s Paris nightclub where glamorous lesbians dined, danced, sang and socialised without fear of persecution within its plush, secret walls. 

Featuring a smouldering, versatile cast of seven – including the celebrated early jazz singer and band leader, Imogen Banks.

Two dancers bathed in blue-green light lean towards each other, kneeling.
Two performers lean towards a third in the middle of them to kiss them on the cheek. the performer in the centre has their eyes wide in surprise.
Six performers standing and sitting at different levels, staring at the camera.

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This new première at Northern Stage 2 was a thrill—more dangerous, more skilled, more focused, a richly shaped work. 

Dora Frankel British Theatre Guide

Mathieu offers us a gift here: the opportunity to see for ourselves what it looks like to be free in a safe space.

Helen Redfern NARC Magazine

Atmospheric and intense as immaculate storytelling combines with sublime, sinuous dance, The Monocle is stunning. ★★★★★

Rosie Sharman-Ward Pink Prince Theatre Review

Meet the director!

Performance time: 7.30pm
Duration: 1hr 40mins (including interval)
Age Guide: 13+

This performance is BSL integrated, and audio description through headsets and phones is available. There will be a post-show talk after the show. 

Audience warnings: This performance contains flashing lights, haze and partial nudity. This performance also includes an act of chest binding presented as a historical reference within the context of the work’s narrative. Some viewers may find this imagery distressing.

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