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.
Professor Charlotte Roberts, Emeritus Professor, Department of Archaeology, Durham University
Let the dead teach the living: Infectious Diseases Revealed by Excavating and Studying Archaeological Remains
Charlotte Roberts is a bioarchaeologist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University. Her research lies in the study and interpretation of our ancestors’ health and well-being, and specifically the origin and evolution of infectious diseases. Elected to the British Academy as a Fellow in 2014 in recognition of excellence in bioarchaeological research, she has presented her research at conferences across the globe, supervised over 30 PhD students, and been involved in public engagement activities all her academic life (talks, exhibitions, production of resources). She has published over 200 book chapters and journals, authored/co-authored five books (Leprosy: Past and Present, The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis: a global perspective on a re-emerging disease, Health and Disease in Britain: from prehistory to the present day and Human Remains in Archaeology: a handbook and The Archaeology of Disease, both of these having been translated into Chinese) and been involved with five co-edited books (The backbone of Europe: Health, Diet, Work and Violence over Two Millennia, A Global History of Paleopathology: Pioneers and Prospects and The Past and Present of Leprosy).
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