Dates & Times
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 event will be BSL interpreted.
Join best-selling author Ann Cleeves in conversation with Fiona Erskine as she introduces her latest novel ‘The Raging Storm’. Ann is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn and has written more than thirty-five critically acclaimed novels. Fiona Erskine is the author of ‘The Chemical Detective’ thriller series.
Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books. In 2021 her Reading for Wellbeing project launched with local authorities across the North East, and in 2022 she was awarded an OBE for her services to reading and libraries. She lives in Northumberland where the Vera books are set.
Fiona Erskine is a professional engineer and writer based in the North-East of England. She grew up in Edinburgh, studied Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University before travelling the world, working in fertiliser factories, oil terminals, international construction projects and power plants. Her first thriller, The Chemical Detective was published in 2019 by the Point Blank imprint of OneWorld , the second in the series The Chemical Reaction was published in 2020, with The Chemical Cocktail in 2022. A stand alone novel Phosphate Rocks: A Death in Ten Objects was published by Sandstone Press in 2021. The Chemical Code was released in June 2023.
This event will take place at Billingham Library.