The Festival welcomes all visitors to its events. With this in mind we make every effort to ensure that the programme is accessible to the whole community.

Below are details of the sign language interpreted, audio described and supertitled performances included in Festival 2009. Our venue access guide has details of physical access to all of our venues and of hearing enhancement systems. You can view our venue access pages here or download the full guide here.

The Festival publishes an Access Guide and both this guide and the Festival 2009 brochure are available in CD, tape, large print and Braille formats on request, please phone 0131 473 2089 or email access@eif.co.uk

Festival guides will be available from Wednesday 25 March 2009.

Access Requirements

To help make booking your Festival tickets as simple as possible we ask customers who have specific access requirements to give us a bit more information. By including more details about your individual needs on your customer record we can tell at a glance which seats to suggest. All you need to do is fill out an Access Requirements form. These are available here or by emailing the box office at access@eif.co.uk. Once you have completed the form simply email it to access@eif.co.uk or send to: 

Hub Tickets
Edinburgh International Festival
The Hub
Castlehill
Edinburgh
EH1 2NE

On receipt of your form we will add the details to your record. If you would like any further information about the Access Requirements form or require some assistance filling out the form then please call 0131 473 2089 or get in contact using one of the methods above.

Hearing Enhancement Systems

Infra-red systems use invisible infra-red light to carry sound to receivers worn by listeners. The venue access guide includes information on induction loops and infra-red systems available at our venues. If you would like more information about hearing enhancement systems at any of our venues, please get in touch.  

The following performance will be British Sign Language interpreted

The Last Witch by Rona Munro
Traverse Theatre Company
Thursday 27 August, 2.30pm
Royal Lyceum Theatre

Peter and Wendy (after J. M. Barrie)
Mabou Mines
Friday 4 September, 7.30pm
Royal Lyceum Theatre

The following performances will be audio described

The Last Witch by Rona Munro
Traverse Theatre Company
Friday 28 August, 7.30pm
Royal Lyceum Theatre

Peter and Wendy (after J. M. Barrie)
Mabou Mines
Friday 4 September, 7.30pm
Royal Lyceum Theatre

There will be a touch tour before these performances 

The Last Witch by Rona Munro
Traverse Theatre Company
Friday 28 August
Touch Tour 6.15pm
Performance 7.30pm 
Royal Lyceum Theatre

Peter and Wendy (after J. M. Barrie)
Mabou Mines
Friday 4 September
Touch Tour 6.15pm
Performance 7.30pm
Royal Lyceum Theatre 

Both Touch Tours begin at 6.15pm. Please call the access line to book your free place. Before the audio described performances of The Last Witch on Friday 28 August 7.30pm and Peter and Wendy on Friday 4 September 7.30pm (both at the Royal Lyceum Theatre) there will be a touch tour of the set, costumes and props. The touch tours will start at 6.15pm. We may have to make last minute changes to touch tour schedules due to technical and cast requirements and all touch tours are subject to stage availability. We will make sure that you are kept informed of any changes that affect the touch tour schedule. 

Supertitled Performances

The following performances have English supertitles:

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria by Claudio Monteverdi
Handspring Theatre Company
Sunday 23, Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 August at 8pm
King's Theatre

Admeto, re di Tessaglia by George Frideric Handel
FestspielOrchester Göttingen
Friday 28, Saturday 29 and Monday 31 August at 7.15pm
Edinburgh Festival Theatre

Actus tragicus by Johann Sebastian Bach
Staatsoper Stuttgart
Friday 4 and Saturday 5 September at 7.30pm
Edinburgh Festival Theatre

Faust by Silviu Purcărete (freely adapted after Goethe)
National Theatre 'Radu Stanca' Sibiu
Tuesday 18, Wednesday 19, Thursday 20, Friday 21 and Saturday 22 August at 7.30pm
Lowland Hall, Ingliston

Tondal's Vision
Diagolos
Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 August at 9.30pm
Canongate Kirk