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.
This week Joseph Casling will be at ARC working on his show Conked Out.
Conked Out is a high-octane circus/theatre hybrid show created and performed by Joseph Casling. The show follows Conkers the Clown, who fails in every aspect of his life and is sent to therapy with B.R.I.A.N the Behavioural Readjustment Intelligence Android and Neurotherapist; where he must be cured or else…
In this epic clowning adventure, Casling explores themes of mental health, isolation, burnout and self-worth, all the while using his clowning abilities to tell us the story between a clown and his supercomputer therapist.
“Did I Forget To Mention? Patient 190371 Is A Clown, Literally and Figuratively Speaking.” (B.R.I.A.N, 2021)
About Joseph Casling
Joseph Casling is an actor, theatre-maker and clown from County Durham, who has spent the majority of his life working in Teesside. Studying BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen and MA Directing and Theatre Making at the Northern School of Art, Joseph often creates work that centres around the human psyche that is performed in a circus/theatre hybrid.
In 2021 Joseph received the ARC Award for his solo show Conked Out. This ACE funded show explores themes of loneliness, burnout and self-worth while juggling the monumental task of being a comedy.