Pay What You Decide Info
Running time: 50 mins approx.
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
After the huge success of their Our Stomping Grounds Festival in June, and their sell out show at Stockton International Riverside Festival, Full Circle Theatre Company is back with a brand new show, Storiescapes, promising to bring their trademark style of powerful, poignant and witty highly visual theatre back to ARC’s main stage.
This striking new piece of work from the learning disabled ensemble of actors is set in an Escape Room where their stories are going to be locked away and hidden for hundreds of years. Each of the actors embodies a story and fights to break free to allow it to be told.
The company’s starting point was to explore autobiographies and looked at whose stories make it to the bookshelves, asking who decides whose stories are valued most. Does it have to be only celebrities? In Storiescapes, Full Circle ask whether the stories of learning disabled people will ever be told properly? From their point of view?
In this exciting and dramatic piece of visual theatre, the actors are trapped and slowly realise that the Escape Room is full of puzzles and challenges which could provide them with a route of escape. They share their stories and dreams with each other and the audience… Lonely Guy dreams of being a DJ but his story is stuck on an old vinyl record. Drummer wants to be part of a musical goth community – can the Tall Man and the Crow help him release his story from the tomb? Adventurer and Poet want to write a wildlife book and go on a wild duck hunt. Crisp Bag is looking for love. Festival Boi, Party Animal and Music Man have got the vibes but can they channel their energies into an escape? Opera and Hostess want to lift everyone’s spirits in the darkness. Goose Bumps and Dolls House want dignity and respect – can they lead the group to freedom? And who is the mysterious Horse Whisperer with six white horses?
What will happen to the world if all these stories break free? You’ll have to book tickets and come and see.
Access – the show will be BSL interpreted and have integrated captions.
Content and sensory awareness – please note that Full Circle has a very visual theatrical style with stage lighting and an impactful set design of an escape room. There is colourful lighting and sometimes it creates a shadowy effect but there are no flashing lights or strobes. At the beginning of the performance all appears happy in the world of the actors as they go about their business but with a few rumbles of thunder the security force arrives to lock them into the escape room. There are some loud clanking door sounds to symbolise being locked in and there is some sinister style music to let us know they are in a new and unhappy world. But Full Circle have a brilliant way of bringing things back to a safer feeling space with humour and fantastic music. There is some suspense as we don’t know if they will escape to be able to tell their stories, and there are some occasional loud sound effects to create the effect. There is lots of lively and characterful music throughout which some audiences love to clap along to. The show will have a lively ending and some audience members may want to get up and dance on stage with the company.
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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.
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Companion Ticket Scheme
A free ticket is available to a companion accompanying a disabled person to an event, where it is an access requirement. To book a companion ticket or accessible seating as part of your order please contact the Box Office team on 01642 525199 or email [email protected]
You can tell us about any other access requirements you have at the time of booking.
