The Fringe Director, Jon Morgan has announced his resignation.

The Fringe Director Jon Morgan has announced his resignation.

Jon Morgan who has only been the Fringe Director for just over a year, has today resigned over the ten percent drop in ticket sales compounded by the computer booking fiasco. His departure is sad, but honourable, he is going back to his great love producing and presenting great theatre, in which I am sure we all wish him well. We would hope that the Fringe IT and website development team would also fall on their sword, since they created the problem in the first place. Many times in this festival we were told by countless shows that that the ticket buying public were told by the Fringe website that the show was sold out, when this was not the case, this was not the direct fault of the Fringe Director, but of the software development team. Jon Morgan's only sin would appear to be, believing what he was told by web designers et al, and authorising the implementation of an untried system. Hopefully the independent review of the box office will show this and other reasons, like the fact that people were booking tickets through the venue websites rather than the Fringe website could have affected the figures, as well as the appalling weather having played its part.

Good luck Jon, many people will be sad at your departure, we all believed you had so much more to give the Fringe.      John Ritchie, Editor