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.
General Prices: Pay What You Decide
Duration: 2hrs
Seating: Unreserved seated
We’ve heard from the Maidens, and from the Mothers, so now of course we must give the stage to the Crones! For the third and final Deranged Poetesses of 2018, we welcome six women poets from across the North to share their unique approaches to cronehood. Expect humour, defiance, witches, role models, subversion, surprises and beauty as we blend words and images to bring you a poetry night like no other…
peek-a-booM – Now You See Me! by Joy France
Entwining her own story of growing old disgracefully with observations on the negative stereotypes of older women from nursery rhymes to the mainstream media, Nationwide poet and granny rapper Joy France shows us how she (finally) found her voice.
“croneshadow stumbles ahead of me” by Polly Atkin
Using ‘pain selfies’ and shadow portraits, Polly Atkin unpicks the misogynist and ableist ideas about ugliness, age and decrepitude that circle the word ‘crone’, draws parallels between ageing and living with chronic illness, and asks what it means to say something or someone is invisible?
Own The Crone by Izzy Brittain
Using her madcap mash-up of spoken word, live art and ‘tribute dances’, Izzy invites us to re-imagine archetypal crones from Baba Yaga to Lilith, and celebrate modern real-life inspirational crones like Dales farmer Hannah Hauxwell, Viv Albertine of punk band The Slits, and Bernice Bates – the oldest yogi on earth.
After Ever After by Carmen Marcus
So what happens after the fairytale wedding? Inspired by the voices of her own strong female relatives, Carmen tells the ‘third act’ stories of three iconic heroines. As an older woman, what can Cinderella teach about power dressing? How has Gretel learned to listen to her body about food? What does Sleeping Beauty know about insomnia?
Mutton Boots by Zoe Murtagh
Drawing on conversations with many women about what it means to grow old radically, Zoe brings us spoken-word-theatre-protest-live art-cabaret performance about the politics of invisibilty, desirability and chaos for the modern crone.
The Beautiful Emancipation by Julie Easley
What were the voices that held her back, the pressures that inhibited her younger self? In an epic poem illustrated by dioramas and animations of remodelled and defaced dolls, Julie will celebrate the sexual emancipation of the crone, and revel in the Fearless Age of Don’t Give A Fuck!
| Pay What You Decide This performance is priced on a Pay What You Decide basis, which means that 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. Click here to find out more. |