Onatti Productions

What Onatti Productions does

Onatti Productions Ltd is a privately held UK company, founded in 1994, that creates and tours original foreign language theatre to schools across the United Kingdom. Its core products are live interactive plays performed by native-speaking actors in French, Spanish, German, and Mandarin, pitched at students aged 7-18, with titles such as ACTION!, ¿Cuándo, cómo y quién?, Das Schlimmste Hotel, 福来酒馆 (Fortune Tavern), Parlez-vous Français?, RSVP, Un Ensayo Desastroso, Das Gruselhaus, Shipwrecked en France, and 男生们. Performances are 45-50 minutes long, include audience participation in which students take on roles in the script, and are accompanied by free downloadable worksheets (synopses, script extracts, vocabulary lists). The company tours plays directly to schools, requiring only a 6m x 5m performance space, and delivered 609 performances during the 2025-2026 academic year.

The business model is direct-to-consumer with pay-as-you-go unit pricing: schools contact Onatti to request dates during touring windows, confirm bookings with no deposit, and pay a single per-performance price regardless of UK location, with discounts offered for schools booking multiple plays. A separate revenue stream, OnattiFilms (onattifilms.com), licenses short foreign language films with worksheets at £65 + VAT per film set for classroom use. Marketing is conducted via the company website (onatti.co.uk) plus organic social on X, Instagram, and YouTube, supplemented by teacher word-of-mouth referrals. The company is registered at 8 Greville House, Warwick, CV34 4UJ, UK (company number 06902699). It operates as a private limited company with no disclosed institutional investors, parent, or subsidiary structure, and no disclosed revenue or financial figures.

Name

Onatti Productions

Legal name

Onatti Productions Ltd

Website

https://onatti.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Onatti Productions is a UK company that writes and tours original foreign language theatre (French, Spanish, German, Mandarin) directly to schools, complemented by a licensed library of language-learning films, serving UK primary and secondary modern foreign language curricula.

Ownership category

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Product category

Educational Theatre / Performing Arts Education for Schools

NAICS

Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters (711110), Performing Arts Companies (7111), Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (512)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812), Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Distribution (7822)

akta.pro primary industry

Touring Theatre Productions (MPAGABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Children’s & Youth Theatre (MPAGABAE), Non-Theatrical Distribution (Educational, Airlines, Cruise, Community) (MPADAJAJ)

Keywords

• Language learning theatre
• School theatre performances
• Educational drama productions
• Foreign language films
• School curriculum support

Headquarters

HQ city

Lydbrook

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. School Theatre Performances: Onatti generates revenue by performing live foreign language theatre productions directly at schools. Schools book performances and pay a single price regardless of location or audience size. Discounts are offered for schools booking multiple plays.
2. Language Films: Schools can access Onatti's library of foreign language films for classroom use at a fixed price of £65 + VAT per film set.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Onatti Productions creates and tours original foreign-language theatre productions (French, Spanish, German, and Mandarin) directly to UK schools, with native-speaking actors and interactive audience participation designed for MFL curricula. The company also licenses a catalogue of short foreign-language films (OnattiFilms) for in-classroom viewing, accompanied by free downloadable teacher worksheets. Plays are 45 minutes long and the cast tours the UK visiting schools at a flat fee regardless of location or audience size.

Product overview

Onatti Productions is a UK-based company that provides foreign language educational theatre and films for schools. Their core offering consists of live interactive theatre performances in French, Spanish, German, and Mandarin that tour directly to schools, where students are invited to participate in the performances. They also offer a library of language learning films available for classroom use, all accompanied by free downloadable worksheets. The company operates separate touring productions for different academic years, with individual play titles (such as ACTION!, ¿Cuándo cómo y quién?, Das Schlimmste Hotel, Parlez-vous Français?, RSVP, Un Ensayo Desastroso, Das Gruselhaus, Shipwrecked en France, and the Mandarin plays 福来酒馆 and 男生们) serving as the primary products, each targeting specific languages and age groups from primary to secondary school students.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• OnattiFilms: Foreign language films for schools with worksheets, available at onattifilms.com

Products and services

• ACTION! (French play) French-language touring play for students aged 12-16, performed by native French speakers, in which the audience participates as cast and crew on a film set. Runs 45 minutes and is available to book at a single price regardless of UK location.
• ¿Cuándo, cómo y quién? (Spanish detective comedy) Spanish-language touring comedy for students aged 12-16 performed by native Spanish speakers, in which audience students take on roles as witnesses and suspects in a robbery investigation, using cue cards and re-enactments to practise Spanish. Runs 45 minutes.
• Das Schlimmste Hotel (German play) German-language touring comedy for students aged 12-16 performed by native German speakers, about a couple who run a bad hotel and grow suspicious of their guest; includes audience participation. Runs 45 minutes.
• 福来酒馆 (Fortune Tavern) Mandarin play Mandarin-language touring play for students aged 12+ performed by native Mandarin speakers, set around a talent competition at a Chinese tavern, with traditional Chinese costume and cultural elements. Runs 45 minutes.
• Parlez-vous Français? (beginner French play) French-and-English touring play for beginner learners aged 7-12, performed by native French speakers, about a student who ends up alone in a French hospital after a ski-trip accident. Runs 45 minutes.
• RSVP (French play) French-language touring play for students aged 12-16 performed by two native French actors, about two friends organising a last-minute party, pitched at GCSE-level French learners.
• Un Ensayo Desastroso (Spanish play) Spanish-language touring play for students aged 12-16 performed by two native Spanish actors, set during auditions for Romeo y Julieta in which audience students play all the other characters.
• Das Gruselhaus (German horror-comedy play) German-language touring horror-comedy for students aged 12-16 performed by two native German actors, in which two friends shelter in an abandoned house during a thunderstorm and try to determine whether it is haunted.
• Shipwrecked en France (French/English adventure play) French-and-English touring adventure play for students aged 9-12, about a boy stranded on the French coast who must communicate with broken French, with audience participation.
• 男生们 (Mandarin Play) Mandarin-language touring comedy for students aged 12+ performed by Qi Zhang and Yi Hsin Wang, about a young woman left in charge of babysitting who must manage her ex-boyfriend's unexpected visit.
• Onatti Language Films Library of short foreign-language films (French, Spanish, German, and Mandarin) pitched at students aged 12-15, available to schools at £65+VAT for full classroom use, accompanied by downloadable worksheets. Sold under the OnattiFilms sub-brand at onattifilms.com.

Quantifiable outcome

• Students can understand approximately 80% of the language in performances (Mandarin)
• +1 more outcomes

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Broad incumbents

• Watermill Theatre: Established UK regional theatre producing and touring original productions to schools and community venues, with a broader portfolio but overlapping school-tour activity.
• FluentU: Ed-tech incumbent providing authentic-language video content for language learners; overlaps with Onatti's film-licensing product line at the language-video-for-learners intersection.

Direct peers

• Riding Lights Theatre Company: UK touring theatre company that tours original productions nationwide to schools, churches, and community venues, comparable to Onatti in touring-school scale and original-script model.
• Travelling Light Theatre Company: Bristol-based touring theatre company producing original shows for children and young people that tour into schools and theatres across the UK.
• M6 Theatre Company: Manchester-based theatre company creating work for children and young people that tours into schools, with a comparable school-tour, original-production model.
• Pied Piper Theatre Company: UK touring theatre company that performs plays in schools, sharing Onatti's direct-to-school touring model and education-targeted live performance niche.
• Theatre Centre: London-based touring theatre company producing work for schools and young audiences, with overlapping school-tour programming and educational theatre positioning.

Emerging players

• Linguascope: UK-based educational language-learning platform selling digital resources to schools; comparable in target customer (UK MFL departments) and complementary to Onatti's film offering.
• Polka Dot Theatre: UK children's theatre touring company that performs in schools and theatres with a young-audience focus; partial overlap with Onatti's school-targeted performance model.

Regional players

• Lightbulb Languages: UK-based primary-MFL resource provider selling songs, videos, and classroom materials to schools; adjacent to Onatti's classroom-film and worksheet offerings.

Market position

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Weaknesses5 records

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Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/OnattiProdsLtd
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC0eG23TmvNFva_WQi_wFj7Q
• Instagraminstagram.com/onattiproductions
• Facebookfacebook.com/100053217279096
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/onatti-productions-limited

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