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.
A Poetry Playspace is not quite a workshop, not quite a drop-in, but an opportunity to come together and explore ways of taking poetry beyond the loneliness of the page! Facilitated by members of the Tees Women Poets who may themselves be learning or experimenting with the techniques offered in the session, Playspaces may cover anything from yogic breathwork for performance to creating AI animations from poetry as prompt.
Playspaces are free to attend, but you can opt to donate to the TWP’s Future Fund if you like.
The TWP is an intersectional feminist organisation and welcomes transwomen and non-binary poets who are comfortable in a woman-centred space.
Playspaces take place every third Saturday of the month from 2-5pm, with a hiatus in July and August.
Sat 15 Mar: Puppetry & Poetry with Lucy Harper – Book for this event on Eventbrite here.
Don’t put a sock in it, put a sock-puppet on it!
Putting words into the mouth of a puppet is an amazing way to create stories, say the taboo, argue with yourself, and generally add drama, comedy, and surprise to your writing!
With actor Lucy, we’ll learn some very basic puppetry to explore developing characters and story. We’ll use materials and inanimate objects to explore developing characters from nothing – characters that will explore moving round the space and interacting with each other, building their personality. Working in pairs we’ll interact with each other and share back some movement based stories that have been developed in silence. You’ll then write a poetic statement in the voice of your puppet and share this back with the puppet movement that has been created.
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