Tag archives for Gail Borrow
Explore The Arch Latest Project
GAIL BORROW In the latest exploration of trailblazing women who travelled great journeys around 1000 years ago, Explore The Arch Theatre explores Agatha of Hungary at Pevensey Castle. Early-career team…
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…