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.
General Prices: Pay What You Decide
Taking the Time by Gillian Jane Lees and Adam York Gregory is a large-scale, multi-participatory project that looks at how we experience time.
Gillian and Adam want to ask you a couple of questions:
What specific clock time is important to you?
Why is it important?
It might be the time you were born, or the time you get home from work, the time of your first kiss, or the time of the train that brought you here. It could be anything at all, as long as it is important and meaningful to you.
This question is open to everyone that has a connection with Stockton, no matter how old or young.
After they have collected 1,440 times and reasons, Gillian and Adam will create a sonic memorial, where they will set the donated times as alarms on 1,440 digital watches over a period of 24 hours.
After 24 hours, the watches will remain in place as a sonic sculpture, a monument that moves between silence and chorus to the rhythms of the town and its residents.
Gillian and Adam will be setting the alarms in a shopfront in the Wellington Square shopping precinct, where the watches will remain for a short period as a sonic installation. This was originally planned for 25-27 March, but in light of the current circumstances has had to be postponed. We’re looking at when the installation can be rescheduled to, so watch this space and we’ll provide more information as soon as we can.