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Posts by Sarah Birch

Beowulf, King’s Head Theatre, stage review: ‘Song, dance and quirky humour to light up your festive season’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 3 December 2021

Charles Court Opera takes on an ancient tale for its seventh Christmas pantomime

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Noguchi, Barbican Art Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Blurring the line between representational and abstract’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 11 October 2021

Major retrospective on the work of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi is ‘breathtakingly diverse’

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Mischief and Mayhem, Little Angel Theatre, stage review: ‘Rambunctious romp through the dangers of overconsumption’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 14 September 2021

‘What if Shakespeare had an opinion on climate change?’ asks Dirty Feet Theatre Company in this witty short play

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Hyangmok Baik: Forgotten By Us, Beers Gallery, exhibition review: ‘The more one looks, the more one sees’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 22 July 2021

The Korean painter’s solo show is ‘full of colour and off-beat imagery’

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Lithography from Leningrad, Estorick Collection: ‘A far cry from the drab stereotype of the Soviet Union’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 22 November 2019

A rare glimpse at ‘quirky and wholly modern’ prints produced by the Leningrad Experimental Graphics Laboratory in the 1950s

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Paolo Scheggi in Depth, Estorick Collection: ‘Well-chosen retrospective for a versatile artist’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 23 August 2019

The work of the Florentine, who died in the early 70s aged just 31, is fast becoming iconic

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Sweet Sorrow, David Mitchell, book review: ‘Contemplative treatment of life’s essential questions’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 16 August 2019

The latest novel by the Highbury-based author of One Day is ‘brimming with laugh-out-loud humour’

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The Time Of Our Lies, Park Theatre: ‘Compelling – if you’re of the right mindset’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 6 August 2019

Bianca Bagatourian’s play about the life and work of American intellectual Howard Zinn is a ‘history lesson with sonorous contemporary relevance’

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Shipwreck, Almeida Theatre, review: ‘Full of a fantasmagoric energy’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 21 February 2019

Fisayo Akinade shines in this ‘compelling exploration of the American moral landscape in Trump time’

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Fausto Melotti comes to Highbury

By Sarah Birch | Monday 21 January 2019

A new exhibition of the artist’s work exudes geometric harmony

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Essex Road 5: Take a walk on the arty side

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 10 January 2019
Image: I had the Dream of a Perfect World, © Dmitri Galitzine, 2018, HD video still

Tintype gallery sponsors free walks with local artists

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The Hunters, book review: ‘The moral turpitude of colonialism unfolds’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 9 July 2018

Kat Gordon’s second novel, set in inter-war Kenya, is apposite in today’s political climate

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Kismet, book review: ‘haunted by doubts about the authenticity of her life’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 21 June 2018
Luke Tredget

Whether Kismet means destiny or division, Anna is about to test it

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Machinal, Almeida – review: an expressionist masterpiece on marital life and motherhood

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 12 June 2018
Machinal

Natalie Abrahami’s production of this 1928 play has a current resonance about the social confinement many women face

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Islington council elections 2018: analysis

By Sarah Birch | Monday 7 May 2018
Islington election results 2018

Islington is the only local authority in London to see no change in council seats, but turbulence lurks beneath the surface

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