Is the ticket office really the best farce in town?

As the chaos surrounding ticket mix-ups roared on unabated and reports claimed the Fringe was dead, Tom Shields jumped on a Waverley-bound train at Glasgow Queen Street in search of the true spirit of the Edinburgh festival AS THE Edinburgh Festival Fringe box office descended into chaos and The Times of London printed an article asking earnestly if the spirit of the festival has been killed, it seemed like an opportune time for a Glaswegian to go east and just make sure everything really was going badly. The ticket office had been billed as the best farce in town. Oh, what a circus, oh, what a show. The ingredients were there. Tickets paid for more than once and still lost in the system. Tickets in the post which had not arrived. Tickets which arrived but belonged to other people and shows. Festival-goers who had taken a day... [read full story]