Located: Upstairs Gallery Lounge
Closed Sundays and Mondays
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.
A funny, honest and moving new play by Rachel Stockdale, the award-winning artist behind the critically acclaimed production Fat Chance. Inspired by real conversations with more than 100 women and caregivers across the region, Mother? uses verbatim theatre to explore the pressures, expectations and realities of modern parenting with warmth, humour and heart.
30 of those interviewed are represented here in Debbie Todd’s portrait exhibition which showcases some of the beauty and chaos of motherhood.
Rachel Stockdale is an actor & theatremaker. As writer/performer, her work includes the acclaimed Fat Chance (The Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe & sold-out UK tour); Tub Time (Northern Stage); Bin Day (BBC iPlayer); Coal Girls (Oldham Coliseum) and Where All The Extra Pounds Came From (North East Comedy Hot House). Rachel won the Arts Council England Award for Fat Chance (NE Culture Awards) and is a BBC Development Fund Comedy Creative.
The photographs were produced by Debbie Todd who is a socially engaged photographer, working with underrepresented marginalised communities around the UK.
