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.
England 1555. An isolated group of salt farmers arrange illegal passage to Europe for an Indian Gypsy family in hiding. But a love affair between Patience, a mute English girl, and Rumi, the son of the Egyptians, threatens to destroy both communities.
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BBFC Ratings Information
sexual violence and sexual threat
A scene of sexual violence features the rape of a woman by two men, one of whom is killed by the other who replaces him in the violation of the woman. There is no nudity or any other eroticising of sexual violence, and the focus is on the woman’s distress throughout, but the process of her ordeal is sustained. The surviving rapist subsequently and falsely accuses the woman of tempting him and making him act against his will.
violence
A man is stabbed in the head and blood spurts copiously from the wound. There is also strong violence in scenes in which an unsympathetic male character batters both men and woman, but without unduly strong detail.
There are occasional uses of very strong language (‘c**t) and more frequent uses of strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms such as ‘bitch’ and ‘whore’. There is strong threat. There are moderate sex references. There is brief natural breast nudity. There is discriminatory language with Asian characters being described as “leather-faced” and “night-skinned”. There are references to miscarriage.