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.
Historian Dr Helen Fry presents a fascinating talk on Thomas Joseph Kendrick, one of the most senior spymasters of the British Secret Intelligence Service in the 20th century. Working for the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, as the ‘passport control officer’, he tracked Communist agents across Europe in the 1920s and Nazi spies in the 1930s from his headquarters in Vienna. After Hitler annexed Austria in March 1938, he issued fake visas and papers to Jews, saving up to 200 Jews a day. Helen’s talk brings this spymaster out of the shadows of MI6 secrecy to be able to appreciate his true legacy.
Dubbed ‘the elusive Englishman’, Kendrick’s real identity eluded Hitler’s Secret Service (the Abwehr) until his betrayal by a double agent in the summer of 1938. Kendrick faced ‘Soviet-style interrogation’ from the Gestapo before being expelled for spying. He returned to London and disappeared from the public eye… but behind the scenes, in the Second World War, he headed one of the most important intelligence operations of the war that shortened the war and saved thousands of lives.