Dynamic Pricing
ARC’s policy is to set ticket prices based on demand, like budget airlines, which means we set a price when the event goes on sale and then sometimes put the price up or down depending on how the show is selling. Usually, the price will increase as we get closer to the event, so it is advantageous to book in advance, although sometimes we will put special offers on and reduce the price. Our website will always show the current ticket price.
ARC’s theatre and dance performances are priced on a Pay What You Decide basis, which means you don’t have to pay until after you have seen a show!
We want to encourage more people to come and see shows at ARC, more often. Pay What You Decide not only allows you to pay what you can afford, rather than a fixed ticket price, but also removes the financial risk of buying a ticket for a show in advance without knowing whether you are going to enjoy it or not.
Tickets are available to book in advance as usual, but there is no obligation for you to pay until after you have seen the show. You can then decide on a price which you think is suitable based on your experience, which means if you haven’t enjoyed it at all, you don’t have to pay anything.
All money collected will help ARC pay the artists who have performed, and we therefore hope you will give generously.
Please ensure you have arrived and collected your tickets 15 minutes before the show starts in order to secure your seats. At the end of the show, you can decide what to pay, either by cash on the door or by card at the Box Office.
Make Yourself Comfortable is a live exhibition of a negotiation between two strangers. We watch as they work out how to build something together: a piece of flat pack furniture.
It’s not for either of them, it’s for somebody else in the community who has asked for it.
They have a conversation whilst they’re building it, responding to provocations written into the step-by-step instructions.
The whole thing happens in a public. Some people will watch, others will walk by; some people will offer to lend a hand. Once the furniture is built it’s packed up and taken to its new home, its primary aim to make somebody else a little bit more comfortable in the world.
Early next year there will be a call out both online and on the streets of Stockton on Tees. The final event will take place in the town centre at the end of April 2025.
Artist – Kate Daley
Designer & Collaborator – Lisa Mattocks
About Kate Daley
Kate is a freelance artist and producer. She is also a member Quarantine’s ensemble and has collaborated with the company for the last 10 years. Based primarily in Manchester, Kate also works across Leeds with Transform Festival as a freelance producer. She graduated from Salford University with a BA in Contemporary Theatre Practice, and an MA in Art & Design: Creative Technology.
As an artist Kate’s work is rooted in how people shape a place and how a place shapes its people, often making the making of the thing visible as part of the work.
Her most recent works include Building of spines, The people of, I am the space where I am Ark and Vista Privilegiada/Privileged view.
Kate is currently working with Culture Co-op and Middleton Co Operating to open a new community art space in Middleton, Manchester.
Make Yourself Comfortable is part of ARC’s Make New Work Programme and was made in response to the provocations of Kindness and Lifelines.
As part of ARC’s Make New Work Programme Make Yourself Comfortable is supported by funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
