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.
Seating: Allocated - See Seating Plan for More Details
This show can be attended in person or online
BSL, self and audio description, and captions available
A Night of Radical Acts
Award Winning Disabled Women Telling Twisted Tales
A powerful, hilarious new force has been quietly growing in comedy over the last three years – disabled women doing it for ourselves. Since our initial comedy masterclasses with the incredible Rosie Jones during lockdown, we’ve grown from being a short online course to a dynamic writers’ room for disabled women writing in a range of comedy forms. Now it’s time to throw off our invisibility and replace it with a cloak of funny and fierce resistance. This will not be a night of the same old stories by the same old voices. Instead we have created characters you will have never seen, written stand up you won’t have heard, and will be delivering hilarious brand new lyrics and poetry, all with the potential for cabaret, theatre and TV development.
Get your laughing gear on, come to the party and get ready to join our gang!
The show is being live streamed, will be BSL interpreted, have audio and self description and will have captions. Please see our note about content and sensory awareness information below. Our audiences are welcome to come and go freely in the auditorium, and please note that people with conditions which include movement, tics and involuntary sounds are welcome. ARC has a designated quiet space should anyone require it.
Age Guidance: 14+
The Funny Haha Comedy Writers’ Room has eight women writers from all over the country who meet once a week online to develop our craft and to support each other, and endlessly laugh, and this year sees us push ourselves to the next stage with these fab developments.
Live audience folks - the writers in the group are from a wide range of communities with incredibly diverse experiences and perspectives. Tickets are available now – you can book to attend in person or online. Comedy really needs a strong live audience so get your tickets early – they are Pay What You Decide to make the event accessible and to give you control over paying whatever amount you choose to. If you desire an entertaining night of something completely different – we’re your gals. BSL, self and audio description, and captions available.
Comedy industry folks - here is a fantastic opportunity to tune into voices you might not have heard before in front of a live audience – we’re inviting theatre, stand up, TV commissioners, programmers, and bookers to see our potential, to hear more about us and to have a great night! And whilst we make our work for the widest possible audiences, 20-25% of the population is disabled so we also want to ensure that disabled people are included in our audiences. Join the Funny Haha Comedy (R)Evolution.
Content awareness information – please note that this is comedy looking at a history of the discrimination and exclusion of disabled people and is therefore dealing with many realities, some of them difficult, through satire and humour. There is some strong language, references to women’s bodies and body parts, to misogyny, to eugenics, to religion and there are sexual references. We also have lots of celebration and triumph and disabled women taking no nonsense.
Sensory information – there will be colourful static lighting states suitable for a cabaret, some spotlights on performers, there are occasional moving lights but no flashing lights or strobe effects. We use music to punctuate each act and a lively compere who will attempt to get the audience warmed up. There will be some sound effects like a phone ringing, the sound of the sea, bouncing but nothing sudden, shocking or too loud. Performers will use microphones and may occasionally raise their voices slightly when appropriate to their character. Please don’t hesitate to ask for more information by contacting Box Office if you would like more detailed information.
Book Publication Coming Too!
Yes! We’re also publishing a book! So few disabled voices are yet to be captured in print and so we have decided to put together a collection of works written by the members of Funny Haha. Vibrant, three dimensional characters telling surprising stories. We’re writing on the theme of All The Women I Could Have Been and all the writers have unique ways into this theme.
The book is perfect for readers, disabled actors and cabaret performers, and students of disability writing and performance. We are repeatedly told that there isn’t an audience for the work of disabled people, so we hope we can rely on you to become part of a groundswell that proves those old views wrong. Political, surreal, hilarious, relatable and a whole range of forms from really talented writers. You will be able to pre-order so keep checking back or look out for us on social media.
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Content Advice
The show is being live streamed, will be BSL interpreted, have audio and self description and will have captions. Please see our note about content and sensory awareness information below. Our audiences are welcome to come and go freely in the auditorium, and please note that people with conditions which include movement, tics and involuntary sounds are welcome. ARC has a designated quiet space should anyone require it.
Age Guidance: 14+
Please note that this is comedy looking at a history of the discrimination and exclusion of disabled people and is therefore dealing with many realities through satire and dealing with difficult subject matter with humour. There is some strong language, references to women’s bodies, and to eugenics. More detailed content awareness, and sensory information relating to lighting and sound will be available closer to the show.
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Theatre: Seating Accessibility Information
Seat size
In our theatre the seats are 38cm (15″) wide and 44.5cm (17½”) deep. The seats are 44cm (171/3”) from the floor, and have an 8cm (3”) gap between seats.
Armrests
Seats have armrests on either side of the seat which cannot be removed completely. Seats on rows A, C and D have armrests which can be folded away and slot between the seat backs. On all other rows armrests are fixed and cannot be folded or removed.
Legroom
There is 30cm (112/3“) of legroom in front of each seat, with additional legroom in rows D and L, and in Box 1 and Box 2.
Further information
If you have any questions about accessibility our Box Office team are always happy to help and can be contacted on 01642 525199 or by emailing [email protected] - you can also tell us about your access requirements when prompted to do so during the online booking process.
