White Liars and Black Comedy
By Peter Shaffer. Directed by Leigh Shine. The Stables 5th-13th April. Review By Simone Witney White LiarsThere was nothing amateurish about the production of White Liars by Peter Shaffer at the Stables. It’s a one act play with just three…
Sunny Side Up
Ore Campus Solar Panels Installed In Six Days The feed-in tariff which pays back money for every solar energy kilowatt* produced by businesses and homes ended on 31st March. But in the previous week East Sussex College announced the completion…
Stairway To Heaven
Simone Witney reviews Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang Dir: Kevin Macdonald (2016) I’m told that the best way to appreciate a foreign country is to live like the inhabitants. So, on a recent trip to the US, I…
Respect Existence or Expect Resistance
Simone Witney talks to Lucy Bell and David Rhodes about the Tom Hunter show Karam at Rock-a-norePICTURE: Tom Hunter The title is a phrase I spotted among a wall of slogans written by the public at the Ian Hislop exhibition…
‘No Smoke’ Makes A Perfect Fire
How to reduce air pollution and save money by keeping your stove-handling skills bright and shiny Though wood and coal are time-honoured materials for fires, they can still cause pollution by creating small particles in the air, but this can…
The Jeweller, the Chimney Sweep and the Sales Exec
If I tell you that I’m talking about one person here, you may think I’m just making a sweeping statement. On the other hand, if you have spent much time reading HIP you will have an idea just how diverse…
HIP CLASSICS
What’s with the Hat?! If you just stumbled across this photo of a beautiful man you might think it was someone’s lover or friend; you might weave all kinds of stories about it. If you got curious and started digging,…
More Stimulating than Stimmung
Simone Witney previews Price on Application, written by Lisa Harmer-Pope and directed by Leigh Shine Stimmung is a German word meaning the atmosphere of home. It was used by Mario Praz in his standard work History of Interior Decoration to…
Mary Shelley (2018)
Director: Haifaa al-Mansour. Kino-teatr 17th JanuaryReviewed by Simone Witney This film is the result of a collaboration between the screen writer, Emma Jenson and Haifaa al Mansour, the first female film director to come from Saudi Arabia. Haifaa was the eighth…
HIP CLASSICS: Paris, Texas. Ithaca. Same Timing, Different Time
There’s a very moving scene in director Wim Wenders’ film ‘Paris,Texas’ in which Harry Dean Stanton’s character, finding his long lost wife, played by Nastassja Kinski, tells her the story of their disastrous love through the medium of a one-way…