Reviews by Hinny
Death in Venice
Hinny
Garsington Opera's production of Benjamin Britten's opera Death in Venice is flawless. Deeply moving, exquisitely layered and perfectly executed, it left me feeling I had witnessed something ...
10 years ago
Death in Venice
Copenhagen
Hinny
ElevenOne Theatre's production of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen is simply brilliant. It is a fascinating play about science, about people, and about morality and culpability, and the ...
10 years ago
Copenhagen
Discovering Tutankhamun
Hinny
The Ashmolean has triumphed again with their wonderful new exhibition, Discovering Tutankhamun.
There can hardly be a person alive who isn't familiar with the name of Tutankhamun and ...
10 years ago
Discovering Tutankhamun
The Cunning Little Vixen
Hinny
In the bosom of the Wormsley Estate nestles a handsome, modern, semi-outdoors arena of wood and glass. Outside, swallows skim the surface of a grand lake and race amongst champagne-stocked ...
11 years ago
The Cunning Little Vixen
Cézanne and the Modern
Hinny
Cézanne and the Modern is a brilliant exhibition, and well worth going to see!
For the first time ever, Henry Pearlman's wonderful collection of works by Impressionist, Post ...
11 years ago
Cézanne and the Modern
Reverie at Schloss Elmau
Hinny
Nothing is so entrancing as a hearing a musician who has the combination of impeccable virtuoso technique and musical vision and creativity required to make them world-class, and this duo comprises ...
11 years ago
Reverie at Schloss Elmau
Hinny's Guide to Making Your Own Christmas Pudding!
Hinny
In medieval England a pudding was traditionally made on the 25th Sunday after Trinity: it had 13 ingredients, to represent Christ and the 12 apostles, and every family member would stir it in turn ...
11 years ago
Hinny's Guide to Making Your Own Christmas Pudding!
Gypsy Fire
Hinny
Like the Quintette du Hot Club de France? You'll love Gypsy Fire!
This fiddle, guitar and bass trio represent 1930s-style swing jazz at its best. With fingerboards sprayed with ...
11 years ago
Gypsy Fire
Francis Bacon / Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone
Hinny
This new exhibition at the Ashmolean is the first ever to critically link the work of sculptor Henry Moore and painter Francis Bacon. Though the two artists exhibited together several times in ...
11 years ago
Francis Bacon / Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone
Inspector Norse: The Girl With Two Screws Left Over
Hinny
Written and performed by comedy duo LipService (Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding) Inspector Norse is a jumble of all the Scandinavian stereotypes you can think of: Ikea, moose, Abba, meatballs, trolls, ...
11 years ago
Inspector Norse: The Girl With Two Screws Left Over
Wadjda [PG]
Hinny
Wadjda, the first film ever to be made by a female Saudi film-maker, is sweet with hope and dark with anger. The eponymous Wadjda is a young girl growing up into the limitations imposed on ...
11 years ago
Wadjda [PG]
Stradivarius at the Ashmolean
Hinny
Of course, given that it is the largest number of the legendary luthier's instruments ever to be gathered together in the UK, it could hardly fail to amaze, but I was equally struck by how ...
12 years ago
Stradivarius at the Ashmolean
