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Feasts, Festive Shows & Cocktails: London’s Holiday Line‑Up
From Dickensian feasting to queer rom‑com chaos, nostalgic TV specials to traditional music‑hall variety, London’s festive theatre scene is bursting with personality this season. We’re excited to be reviewing all of the following shows. We’ve even found the perfect bar to The Fit Prince (who gets switched on in the…
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Old Fat F**k Up Review
‘ What the f*** are we going to do about all the men?” asks writer and performer Olly Hawes in Old Fat F**k Up, now running at Riverside Studios. It’s a question that sets the tone for a piece that is part-autobiographical, part dark comedy, and concerned with toxic masculinity…
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Review: L’Indiscipline at Voila! Theatre Festival
Science and spectacle collide in L’Indiscipline, a dark comedy that makes its English-language premiere at London’s Voila! Theatre Festival. Written by Michal Vojtech, Pierre Albert Ollivier, and Ariel de la Garza, and performed by Threepenny Collective’s ensemble of fresh voices, the play arrives in London fresh from its world debut…
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#FATKARY: The Corrido of a Tragic Ex-Fat Woman at Voila! Theatre Festival Review
If you’ve ever felt like your body was a battleground, Caridad Gómez has a corrido for you. Her one-woman show, #FATKARY: The Corrido of a Tragic Ex-Fat Woman, landed The Playground Theatre tonight as part of London’s Voila! Theatre Festival. I hadn’t heard the term corrido before, and learned it…
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A Taste of Spain in the Heart of Mayfair – El Pirata Delivers Every Time
We visited El Pirata of Mayfair back in September, long before their Christmas menu had been announced, and even then we were completely won over. It really is no wonder we here at Onin.London have visited El Pirata time and time again. Tucked just off Park Lane, this gem feels…