The Pleasance Theatre Trust has been working with Sight Scotland to provide visual awareness training to over 250 of their Edinburgh Festival Fringe staff to make the experience of visiting one of their Pleasance Fringe venues as accessible as possible for visually impaired festival goers as well as offering more audio described performances this year too.

RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was joined by Jonny Patton, Head of Theatre Edinburgh for Pleasance to firstly give a bit of background to the history of the presence of this famous venue at the Fringe, how the visual awareness training went with Sight Scotland and more about some of the described shows at the many Pleasance venues at this year’s Fringe.

For listings of shows that include access at the many Pleasance venues do visit - 

https://www.pleasance.co.uk/events/accessible  

And to find out more about access generally at the many Pleasance venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 do visit -

https://www.pleasance.co.uk/edinburgh-access 

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