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The Menagerie | Immersive Burlesque in Toronto Ontario

UPCOMING

Enter The Mystery . . .

From the imagination of Creative Director, Knox Harter comes an immersive character-driven burlesque experience like no other.

The Menagerie is a decadent gothic romance set in a sprawling estate where grief, desire, and dangerous secrets coil beneath every velvet curtain. When Leonard - The Mister - dies under mysterious circumstances, his widow, The Madame, inherits not only his vast, fantastical collection of creatures, but also the burden of uncovering how his great love affair with the Menagerie ultimately killed him.

Nyla Cyress as Lola the Racoon in The Menagerie

Across the series, audiences watch The Madame navigate these charged connections while being mirrored by the Menagerie’s inhabitants: seductive predators, melancholy songbirds, mischievous scavengers, and strange, shimmering beings that seem to know more than they can say. In this world of candlelight and glass, the Menagerie becomes a gothic cathedral to love and obsession, where every act peels back another layer of the central mystery: not if The Mister is gone, but why he died, who truly held power over him, and what kind of woman The Madame must become to claim her own story from the jaws of his legacy.

ThankYou J as The Mister and Knox Harter as The Mistress in The Menagerie

Guided by hidden journals, secret compartments, and maps tucked into the bones of the house, The Madame descends into lantern‑lit aquariums, towering aviaries, and shadowed caverns, each wing revealing more about Leonard’s obsessions and the price he was willing to pay in the name of curiosity and control. As she follows the trail he left, she is drawn into a tense web of relationships: a captivating Mistress whose presence on the estate blurs the lines between muse, rival, and accomplice, and an influential Mentor whose salons and influence shaped Leonard’s vision

. . . and may have steered him toward his doom.

Charlie Quinn in The Menagerie as a parrot
The Story So Far . . .
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