Dates & Times
11:00am
Pay What You Decide Info
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.
Engine of Embers is a performance research project that experiments with releasing and transmuting community rage into an engine to power a performance. Anger is a hot and potent power supply, yet we often find ourselves subdued into passivity and powerlessness by overwhelming forces of oppression. Toi will open a space to engage with our collective rage, unlock frustrations, voice our cares, pierce through apathy and warm up passionate forces in our spirits to create change.
Toi is inviting members of the community of Stockton & Tees Valley to join her in exploring the transformation of anger through the body. During March 2025, Toi will hold three creative sessions experimenting with releasing anger through sound and movement, through visiting a rage room, through protesting together and moving towards subsequent feelings of lightness, energy and connection. We will explore how we can harness and sustain our fire, connecting to our nervous systems and deepening our awareness of the pathways of frustrations and rage in our inner and outer world.
There will be an opportunity (but no requirement) to perform for those interested, to be discussed during the workshops.
Engine of Embers is part of ARC’s Make New Work Programme and was made in response to the provocation of Anger.
As part of ARC’s Make New Work Programme Engine of Embers is supported by funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
