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A wide angle shot of the stage space. A simple set showing a grimy room with pipes on the wall and a dirty mattress on the floor is situated at the centre of an all black stage. One person sits in the mattress, one stands near them and one sits on a chair in front of the stage. Above them the set are the arched white walls of the BAC theatre space with a lighting rig.

Enhance Ghost Stories Touch Tour Training, HighTide, November 2025

Extant the UK’s leading visually impaired theatre company delivers tailored Enhance training for venues and theatre companies. Enhance is a tried and tested two-part access training and consultancy programme, led by professionally trained visually impaired facilitators.

We can Enhance your show pre- or post- production via embedding audio description into the script (pre-) or Touch Tour training with programme notes (-post). Our suite of training also includes Visual Impairment Awareness Training (VIAT) for venues and practitioners, Lunch and Learn for staff and freelance teams, and audience development consultancies.

We work with venues and theatre companies to ensure accessible buildings and shows.

On the right Sheila Poku-Dabanka, General Manager at Talawa: a black woman wearing a burgundy top, black skirt and red boots – standing, and holding up a long red coat with a faux fur rim. On the left Michelle Felix, Enhance facilitator, a woman with golden brown skin, and long curly locks – seated, wearing ultra blue and looking at the coat. The two women are in a well-lit room with yellow and wood furniture, and a polished wooden floor.

Touch Tour Training, Talawa Theatre Company and Extant, October 2025

Feedback

‘Very descriptive and it allowed me to create a visual picture in my head.’ Enhance audience member, Enhance show.
‘I found the personal experience and the examples given by our trainer was a brilliant insight. I found the opportunity to guide someone round our building was really helpful (more of that!)’ Attendee, VIAT, Camden People’s Theatre (CPT).
‘It was great to run through issues sighted people take for granted, but also assume about visually impaired people’. Artistic Director, Not Now Collective, Touch Tour training.
‘It was really detailed, relaxed and a pleasant atmosphere. but also thorough. It will be the first time I lead a tour but I feel I’m well equipped’. Actor, ‘English Kings Killing Foreigners’ at CPT.
‘I thought the Touch Tour was excellent. 3 people who were involved in the production were there and they were good at explaining the props, we got to touch some of them.’ Audience member, Small Town Boys, Zoo Venues, Edinburgh Fringe, 2025
‘Brilliant training, very clear and hugely practical’. Producer, Handlebards, Enhance ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.

During the touch tour, 4 people are standing on the set of ghost stories, which is a dark grimy room with pipes on the wall and a raised floor. To the right a large window with smaller square panels and to the left a red door. Around the set are lit up candles.

Enhance Even More… Ghost Stories by Candlelight, HighTide, Battersea Arts Centre, November 2025.

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