INDEX	August 22, 2009
Went to the Edinburgh fringe press office to get accreditation but mainly to see if there were any freebies. The queue was so long I gave up. In the Royal Mile a young woman wearing the brilliant green street coat of power beloved by minor officials accosted me, asking if I had a press pass. I showed her my NUJ card, but that wasn't enough. She pretended to radio her base, conducting a conversation intended to make me believe that I was being summoned to base. When I said I wasn't going she said: 'OH, OK you're all right then.' I'd like to say it was the best acting I'd seen in Edinburgh but it was unconvincing and failed to hold my attention.
INDEX Jonathan Brind		August 22, 2009