Running time: 25 mins
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
Two hundred years ago, on the 23 May 1822, the first rail was laid in what was to become the Stockton & Darlington Railway.
The ceremonial laying of this first rail took place at St John’s Well, next to what we know now as Bridge Road. As was traditional on such occasions, a grand procession followed, a sumptuous dinner in the Town House, while some of the navvies who were building the railway were given money for ‘beer and bread’ to be spent in the town’s taverns that evening.
This short animated film, made by a brilliant group of local people, tells the story of what happened in Stockton that day – bringing to life the people who were there!
Stay for a short Q&A with the film makers after the screening.