Tag archives for Gail Borrow
A Town Explores a Book – Ten Year Celebration
GAIL BORROW The book choice for 2026 is a lively little book chosen by the voluntary committee which raises festival ;John Agard’s My Name is BOOK, illustrated by Neil Packer, is…
A Town Explores a Book
GAIL BORROW The A Town Explores a Book festival (ATEAB) will connect people to the heritage of the Cretaceous period when the place was a riverbed rather than a coastal…
Domestic Theatre as Future Hope
VICTORIA KINGHAM At the present time, the ‘value’ of education appears generally to be measured in literal financial terms: it ceases to be about learning to think, argue, or evaluate.…
Festival for the Whole Town
The website for A Town Explores A Book (ATEAB) describes the festival as: “A reader-led festival of creative responses to a heritage book in St Leonards-on-Sea delivered by ExploreTheArch theatre company.” The emphasis…
The House of the Stone that Spoke
GAIL BORROW Photos: Rod Morris @roadfactoryfilmsCatherine Rajhans ExploreTheArch is the UK’s theatre of domestic life located in a ‘theatre house’ in St Leonards-on-Sea. The inter-disciplinary arts collective mount three experiential…
Down Low and Living the High Life
Merlin Betts reviews High Rise Connecting Conversations, a European Cultural Foundation/EUNIC-funded installation by partners: ExploreTheArch Theatre Company in Hastings, and Seria project in Kyiv, with the co-operation of Hastings Borough…
Iron in the Soul
The artistic director of this year’s A Town Explores a Book (ATEAB) festival, Gail Borrow, shares the insights of two of the key artists involved. The artist known simply as…
A ‘Spirited’ and Covid-safe performance
By Gail Borrow A 12th century adventure writer, a 21st century audience. ExploreTheArch reopens on Thursday 1st July with twelve performances of Spirited, an outdoor production inspired by the lai…
A favourite tree in Gensing Gardens?
Head to Gensing Gardens this February to take part in a new project that celebrates St Leonards-on-Sea’s ’secret’ park – hidden from view yet running alongside London Road. Theatre company…
A Spirited Adventure this Christmas
Spirited, is Explore the Arch theatre company’s magical new outdoor festive show, opening on Monday 21st December – an ingenious adventure for six spirited viewers at any one performance. Spirited…
A Platform For Young Readers’ Voices
By Gail Borrow Catch this year’s biggest public display of young people’s art locally as ATownExploresABook20 gears up for its final weekend of exploration of H G Wells’ The Time…
House of the Internal Combustion Engine
The eclectic team at ExploreTheArch are fine-tuning their Christmas production for its début run on 21st December, and this year’s model looks set to be a cracker. In what may…
Enchanting Summer Theatre – Celebrating a Remarkable Forgotten Female Artist
Following on from their acclaimed Windrush production, ExploreTheArch, Sussex’s experiential and most unconventional theatre company, are back with a hauntingly beautiful inter-European migration story. The House of Marcelle is inspired…
The House Of Marcelle
After a very successful #ATownExploresABook19 festival in St Leonards on Sea, and in particular the #TheHouseofCrusoe performance series, Explore the Arch are delighted announce their forthcoming summer project which opens…