Andrew J. Lederer

Regular readers know how I feel about the Fringe Society. They think they are "The Fringe" and are doing the shows/acts a favor by deigning to imbue them -- for a fee -- with legitimacy.

In reality, the shows and acts are the Fringe and the society is just a collective back office to assist us. We imbue them with legitimacy.

As I've said, we would exist without them, but they wouldn't exist without us. (And as I overheard the head of the International Festival say last year, basically, the only thing the head of the Fringe runs is a box office.)

Anyway, for reasons I may address in more detail at another time, my free Counting House show won't be in the printed programme this year, so I haven't paid the steep (especially in American money) fee charged by the Fringe.

My inclination is to use their logo on my materials anyway. (What can they do to me?)