Dates & Times
Pay What You Decide Info
Age: 16+
Relaxed performance
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: Unallocated - Theatre Style
All performances of The Queen of the North will be relaxed, and will have integrated captioning and audio description.
Tommy’s gone up North to start a revolution.
Queer, disabled and working-class, he’s had enough of being held back by the system, and is determined to finally tear it all down.
But arriving at Stockton High Street’s historic market, Tommy starts to question their ideas about what working classness means to them – and what kind of liberation they really need.
The four pillars of the Stockton community have started their own revolution already. And it’ll take much more than a Southerner with a megaphone to change things for good.
Co-produced over six months of collaboration with local residents of Stockton-on-Tees, Tommy (The Queer Historian) returns to ARC this summer with their new show about class, a 700 year-old market and the whole of the Teesside community.
The Queen of the North crosses the North-South divide and multiple generations of working class culture, to deliver an unforgettable manifesto for freedom.
Written and performed by Tommy
Directed by Scott Le Crass
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England and by ARC Stockton & Teesside Archives.
