Let’s make the Fringe really accessible

You give great deal of free publicity to Fringe venues but you never seem to ask hard questions about accessibility. Why are 75 per cent of Underbelly venues inaccessible for wheelchairs? What plans do they have to do something about it?

When Fringe venues moan about their inability to alter listed buildings why don’t you then ask them whether they think they are confident that these buildings should be used as a major part of a festival “for the people” as the Fringe likes to tell us.

The Pleasance is currently running an “adopt a cobble” scheme.

I would happily subscribe if it meant “get rid of cobbles on pathways” in order to ease wheelchairs, but no, they blame cobbles on the owners, continue to fail to put any infrastructure in themselves and carry on pocketing the massive revenues.

Please be more challenging about the whole thing.

Andrew Widdowson

Perth Street

Edinburgh

Oh well, so the turkeys never voted for Christmas and to the victors go the spoils (regarding the results of the election of members of the Fringe board, which resulted in Stand founder Tommy Sheppard beating Free Fringe candidate Nicola Bolsover).

At least this year’s was a fair and free election and everyone who wanted to vote got the chance.

Not that much has changed. The Fringe, a festival that was set up by performers for performers, is still very much in the hands of a some very wealthy venue owners who will no doubt use their new-found positions to increase their fortunes even further.

But that’s democracy for you. That’s the rules we all signed up for when we Free Fringers were eventually allowed to join the Fringe Society, so we’ll just have to accept it and get on with the show. There’s not a lot more to be said, is there?

John McGuinness

PBH’s Free Fringe

Wardlaw Crescent

Oakley, Fife