You might want to consider creating an Accessibility Guide for your event – to prepare audiences for what’s to come. Accessibility Guides are low cost ways of detailing accessibility in your show.

They can include:

• Access info about the venue – eg wheelchair access, toilets, step count leading to entrance, photos or video of what the venue looks like inside and outside
• Info in getting to the venue – eg public transport routes, parking
• Content of the show – eg characters, plot, themes, content warnings for distressing content
• A script – for people who need subtitles or transcript
• Support helplines – eg Lifeline phone number, QLife details, Arts and Wellbeing Collective details
• Contact details
• Even stating what’s not accessible can be useful – for example, the event will be live streamed online, but won’t be captioned at the time. It will be saved, and uploaded with captions at a later date.

What’s the difference between an Access Guide and a Relaxed Guide?

Not much! Both documents scaffold the journey of an audience member from deciding to attend your performance to having finished said performance.

A Relaxed Guide includes a checklist of ‘What To Expect’, as well as all essential information about getting to and experiencing the venue and show.

An Access Guide contains all of the same information, without the ‘What To Expect’ section, as this is essential only when delivering Relaxed Performances.

Below is Fringe’s Access Guide - we encourage every artist/producer/event to use it -

Access Guide_Fringe2025.docx

Here are some examples of an access guides from previous Fringe artists:

• Le Freak:

  https://www.lefreaktheshow.com/accessibility